Biografie von Willy POGANY (1882-1955/56)

Birth place: Szeged, Hungary

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Designer, painter, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, etcher

Studied: Budapest, Hungary.

Exhibited: Pan-Pac. Expo., 1915 (gold); New York Soc. Arch., 1923 (prize); Leipzig Expo (gold); Budapest Expo (gold) ; AIC

Member: Arch. Lg.; SC; Calif. AC; Beaux-Art Inst.; fellow, Royal Soc. Artists, London, England; Woodstock AA

Work: Heckscher Children's Theatre, NY; Niagara Falls Power Co; W.R. Hearst's Wyntoon Village; Park Sheraton Hotel, NY; Hungarian National Gal., Budapest; Ritz Towers, NY; St. George Hotel, Brooklyn.

Comments: Positions: stage designer for Broadway productions and Metropolitan Opera Co.; motion picture art dir., 1930-40. Auth./illus., numerous books, including Willy Pogany's Drawing Lessons," 1946; "Water Color Lessons," 1950; "Oil Painting Lessons," 1952. Illustrator: American Weekly.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Woodstock AA"