Gabor Peterdi
{{Short description|American-Hungarian artist (1915–2001)}}
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| birth_place = Pestújhely, Budapest, Hungary
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| death_place = Stamford, Connecticut
| nationality = American (b. Hungary)
| education = Académie Julian, Academie Scandinavien, Atelier 17
| field = Printmaking
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Gabor Peterdi (1915 in Pestújhely, Hungary – 2001 in Stamford, Connecticut) was a Hungarian-American painter and printmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1939.[http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/results/?id=3776 Gabor Peterdi: Artwork Search], Smithsonian American Art Museum He enlisted in the US Army and fought in Europe during World War II. He lived and worked primarily in New York and Connecticut, teaching at the Brooklyn Museum, Hunter College and Yale University in addition to working at his art.
Early life
Gabor Peterdi was born on September 17, 1915{{cite web |title=Gabor Peterdi Biography |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/1862/Peterdi/Gabor |website=Annex Galleries Fine Prints |access-date=25 April 2020}} to parents who were poets; they lived in Pestújhely, Hungary, a recently developed northern suburb of Budapest. At the time, this area was still part of the Austria-Hungary Empire. He started working in art from an early age and at 15 won a Prix de Rome to study painting in Italy. After a year, Peterdi went to Paris, where he studied with the British painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17.[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/arts/gabor-peterdi-85-artist-and-printmaker.html "Gabor Peterdi, 85, Artist and Printmaker"], New York Times, 31 August 2001, accessed 27 February 2016 He also studied at the Académie Julian and the Academie Scandinavien.
Emigration to the US
At about the age of 24, Peterdi emigrated to the United States in 1939, at the time of the beginning of World War II in Europe. He first settled in New York, but joined the Army, serving with the United States in Europe during the war.
He established and directed the Graphic Workshop at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.{{cite book|last=Chernow|first=Burt|title=Gabor Peterdi|year=1982|publisher=Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc|location=New York|isbn=0-8008-3121-7|page=113}} Among his students after World War II was Edmond Casarella, who developed an innovative technique for layering cardboard as a medium to be carved like woodcuts.
Peterdi taught at Hunter College (1952–60) and at the Yale School of Art (1960–87).[http://artattik.com/Gabor_Peterdi.html "Gabor Peterdi"]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Art Attik He was a major influence on younger American printmakers, including Robert Bero and Danny Pierce. Chuck Close served as his assistant while working on his MFA at Yale from 1962 to 1964.Alexandra Irvine and Pascale Sicard, "Chronology: A Career in Printmaking," in Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, ed. Terrie Sultan (Munich; New York: Prestel, 2014), 180. He was associated with the New York branch of Atelier 17.{{cite book |last1=Moser |first1=Joann |title=Atelier 17: A 50th anniversary retrospective exhibition |date=1977 |publisher=Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison |pages=83–84 |url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Arts/Arts-idx?type=article&did=Arts.Atelier.i0014&id=Arts.Atelier&isize=text |access-date=24 April 2020}}
In April 1963, Peterdi traveled to Alaska, lecturing briefly at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and visiting Anchorage, Nome, Kotzebue, and Point Hope with former student Danny Pierce. Over the following two years, he worked on paintings and prints related to his Arctic experience.{{cite book|last=Chernow|first=Burt|title=Gabor Peterdi: Paintings|year=1982|publisher=Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc|location=New York|isbn=0-8008-3121-7|page=115}} In 1964 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.{{cite web |title=Gabor Peterdi |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/gabor-peterdi/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation |access-date=25 April 2020}} Through this period when New York was the center of Abstract Expressionism, Peterdi maintained his interest in and exploration of the natural world in his work.
Peterdi died on August 13, 2001, in Stamford, Connecticut.
Peterdi's work is held by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,{{cite web |title=Gabor Peterdi |url=https://art.famsf.org/gabor-peterdi |website=Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |access-date=25 April 2020 |language=en |date=21 September 2018}} the Cleveland Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Artist: Gabor Peterdi |url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?filter-artist=Gabor%20Peterdi |website=Cleveland Museum of Art |access-date=25 April 2020}} the National Gallery of Art,{{cite web |title=Gabor Peterdi |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5199.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=25 April 2020}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=The Big Wetland I |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/482719 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |date=1982 |access-date=25 April 2020}} and the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Gabor Peterdi |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/gabor-peterdi-3776 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=25 April 2020}} among other institutions.[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/peterdi_gabor.html "Gabor Peterdi"], Art Encyclopedia
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External links
- [https://americanart.si.edu/artist/gabor-peterdi-3776 images of Peterdi's work] at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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