Willy Pogány (1882–1955)
Author of The Art of Drawing
About the Author
Image credit: The Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1940.
Works by Willy Pogány
Peterkin 2 copies
The art of drawing 1 copy
The Blue Lagoon 1 copy
Hiawatha 1 copy
Hiawatha 1 copy
Folk tales from many lands 1 copy
Associated Works
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám (FitzGerald) (1120) — Illustrator, some editions — 6,065 copies, 87 reviews
The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy (1918) — Illustrator, some editions — 2,566 copies, 10 reviews
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles (1921) — Illustrator, some editions — 1,734 copies, 9 reviews
The art of Hungarian cooking; two hundred and twenty-two favorite recipes (1954) — Illustrator — 61 copies, 1 review
Alice Illustrated: 120 Images from the Classic Tales of Lewis Carroll (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) (2012) — Illustrator — 22 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Pogány, Willy
- Legal name
- Pogany, William Andrew
- Other names
- Pogány, Vilmos Andreas (Birth)
- Birthdate
- 1882-08-24
- Date of death
- 1955-07-30
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Budapest Technical University
- Occupations
- Art Nouveau style illustrator
painter
book illustrator
mural decorator - Short biography
- His most famous works appeared during his ten year stint while living in London from around 1906 to 1916:
~Faust (Goethe) 1908.
~The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1909. Coloured decorated half-title and fronits, green and brown decorated title, 24 colored plates mounted on grey card. Calligraphic text and numerous decorations.
~Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1910. 20 mounted color plates, 10 full-page illustrations in line with colored backgrounds, 22 full page decorations in two colors, 30 vignettes in line, hand-lettered troughout with decorated borders and background decorations - Considered by many to be one of the most elaborately illustrated books of the last century. Pogány illustrated or decorated EVERY part of every page.
~Tannhäuser (Wagner) 1911.
~Parsifal, or The Legend of the Holy Grail. (Wagner) 1912.
~The Tale of the Lohengrin 1913.
Pogány would go on to illustrate over 150 books, calenders, sheet music, and drawing lesson books. He would also contribute to many magazine covers (Metropolitan, McCalls, American Weekly) and advertising illustrations ( Palmolive, Paramount Pictures, Mohawk rugs and carpets, Djer-Kiss).
Pogány would later move to Hollywood and work and an illustrator (art director) for the Walt Disney Co.
- Nationality
- Hungary
USA - Birthplace
- Szeged, Austria-Hungary
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Hollywood, California, USA - Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
I have a beautifully illustrated Bhagavad Gita by Pogany, so I was delighted to find an instructional book. I find Pogany's style similar in spirit to Burne Hogarth and to Bridgman: a dramatic, comic-book kind of style, the sort I'd like to learn.
contains the first in-depth studies of two important illustrators working in the early part of the 20th century, Willy Pogány and Alice B. Woodward, together with a comprehensive analysis of the illustrations to Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market". The journal has 144 pages finely printed on ivory paper and has a sewn binding. It has four full-colour plates and is handsomely presented in full colour laminated covers
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