Gabor Peterdi

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.

Gabor Peterdi was born on September 17, 1915[2] to parents who were poets; they lived in Pestújhely, Hungary, a recently developed northern suburb of Budapest.

[4] 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.

[7] 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.

[9] 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.

Lavender Meadow by Gabor Peterdi, 1986