Biography from AskART:
| A Holocaust survivor born in Bekescaba, Hungary, Tibor Jankay settled in Los Angeles in 1948 and became a long-time art teacher at Pepperdine University where he chaired the Art Department for 27 years. His paintings are bright, cheerful figurative pieces inspired by French modernists Picasso and Leger. He seldom sold or exhibited his work during his lifetime, regarding them as his children.
He studied at the Academy in Budapest and the Julian Academy in Paris, France. He was in the Hungarian army and sent to Transylvania with other Jewish soldiers in a labor battalion. He escaped Nazi deportation in 1944 and supported himself by drawing portraits in exchange for food and shelter.
From May 27 to July 23, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine hosted a retrospective of his painting.
Source: Butterfield Auction
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Note from David Moss: I was a friend of Tibor Jankay, a Hungarian born artist who adopted California as his home after WWII and the horror of the holocaust. The Hungarian Fine Arts Museum took most of his paintings and sculptures, and is supposedly building a small museum about him in his home town. He passed away in 1995 at very close to age 95.
|
| ** If you discover credit omissions or have additional information to add, please let us know at registrar@AskART.com. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|