Lipót Gedő

Graphic artist, painter. He was a student of Károly Ferenczy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and then studied in Munich. Between 1914-1916, he worked for the Prager Tageblatt, and in 1915 he had an exhibition in Prague. After World War I, he worked as a cartoonist in Berlin and then in Vienna. His album depicting a hundred Austrian public men was published in 1923. He was the editor and designer in one person of Servus. He lived and worked in Hungary between 1927-1938. In 1934, he won the graphics award of the Szinyei Society. His cartoon album Hungarian art collectors and bibliophiles was published in 1931.  From 1933, he had three collection exhibitions in Budapest. Published in 1936, Jani becomes Jonny c. he illustrated his youth novel himself. From 1938 he lived in Paris and then in New York.