Biography
Tibor Gönczi Gebhardt was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was a student of Ferenc Helbing and Jenő Haranghy at the Budapest College of Applied Arts. Gönczi Gebhardt was a very prolific artist, who produced a large number of paintings and posters, and whose style was first defined by art deco and then, after 1945, by socialist realism.
Between 1918 and 1922, Gönczi studied at the School for Applied Arts, where his masters were Ferenc Helbing and Jenő Haranghy. In the 1920s, Gönczi produced decorative, secessionist posters. In the 1930s, his realist sensibility seemed to be especially effective in reaching the workers and peasants. He designs very typical figures of workers, and their forms display grace and immensity. Influenced by the art deco style of György Konecsni, Gönczi preferred working with folkloristic forms.
From 1930 on, he worked as the graphic designer of the "Klösz György és Fiai Rt"; later he worked for the firm's legal successor, Offset Nyomda (Offset Printery). Besides his applied graphic works, he also drew ex librises (bookplates) and illustrations. During the Second World War, he prepared heroic images for the Red Cross.
