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Gabor Peterdi was born on 17 September, 1915 in Pestújhely, Budapest, Hungary, is a Gabor Peterdi was painter. Discover Gabor Peterdi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 17 September 1915
Birthday 17 September
Birthplace Pestújhely, Budapest, Hungary
Date of death 2001
Died Place Stamford, Connecticut
Nationality Hungary

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1915

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.

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.

Gabor Peterdi was born on September 17, 1915 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.

He also studied at the Académie Julian and the Academie Scandinavien.

1939

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.

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.

1952

Peterdi taught at Hunter College (1952–60) and at the Yale School of Art (1960–87).

He was a major influence on younger American printmakers, including Robert Bero and Danny Pierce.

1962

Chuck Close served as his assistant while working on his MFA at Yale from 1962 to 1964.

He was associated with the New York branch of Atelier 17.

1963

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.

1964

In 1964 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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.

2001

Peterdi died on August 13, 2001, in Stamford, Connecticut.

Peterdi's work is held by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among other institutions.