George Bodola (in Hungarian: Bodola György; died 17 March 2007) was a Hungarian
illustrator
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.
Born in
Szombathely,
Hungary, his father was a soccer coach at that time. The family moved in 1958 to
Pécs, in 1960 to
Miskolc, and in 1962 to
Budapest.
George Bodola visited from 1966 to 1968 the
Fáy András School in Mester Street, as a
toolmaker student. From 1969 to 1970 he was student in the High School of
Ormosbánya
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. He visited from 1972 the evening course of
Kaffka Margit Secondary School, then he went to the
correspondence course, but he had not passed the
matriculation exam.
He was called up for
military service in 1973, but due to a brawl, he was sent by the
military court to the
military jail
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, for eight months.
Marriages and children
In 1974 he married Margit Lakatos, their first child (Barnabás Hercules) was born in 1974. He
divorced in 1975, but he lived together with his ex-wife until 1981. In 1982 he married Bíró Klára. Their son, Peter Archibald was born in 1983. In 1983 he defected to
Italy - through
Yugoslavia - with his friend, Gábor Mitribusz. Two weeks later - after a detour in
France - they returned home. In 1986 Bodola emigrated again. He lived one year in
Essen
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, where he worked as a musical instrument restorer. He returned to Hungary in 1987. In 1988 he divorced second time. In the same year he married Zsuzsanna Udvardy, and they moved in 1989 to
Vancouver. He visited home in 2003, but because of a payment default he got a criminal proceeding, so he had to left the country soon.
Later life
Graphic works were not able to make him a living, so he worked on the grocery market, in the Palatinus spa, as a painter and as a cleaner.
He died in Vancouver. His ashes was scattered from a suspension bridge into a stream which runs to the Pacific Ocean.
Art work
He began to draw and make pictures already in his childhood.
Did not benefit from arts education, but he was an
autodidact
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, and soon showed his talent.
At the age of Primary school he has been issued drawings in the
Hungarian Central Army Club, with great success.
With his illustrations appeared the Rock lexicon in 1980, and in 1982 (edited by
Peter Tardos) "Anecdotes from the past until today's", in 1986, (edited by
Czippán György and
Csontos Tibor) while Cicanapló in 2004 (by
Hegedős Györgyi)
He created album art (Stars on 33],
Fonográf,
Tolcsvay), rock music posters (
Piramis, Mini,
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* Page (paper), where the abbreviation comes from Latin ''pagina''
* Paris Herbarium, at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle''
* ''Pani'' (Polish), translating as Mrs.
* The ''Pacific Repo ...
) and Musicians caricatures.
His works were included in the exhibition „Curved mirror”.
Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Slovak artists took part in it (2005 in
Prague, then 2006 in
Nagykapos,
Slovakia.)
Many articles were published about his drawings and caricatures both in Hungary and
Canada.
Remembrance
In 2008 was held a retrospective exhibition of his works in the House of Culture „Budavár” with the participation
Török Ádám & the Mini.
In the same place was held the presentation of the book „Bodoland” (George Bodola's life and art by
Mezey András) in 2009.
References
External links
''Bodoland.blog.hu''
A ''Bodoland...'' bemutatójáról a ''Papirusz.hu''-n
Csontos Tibor: A névjegyére ezt íratta: Nemakárki
Szőcs István: „Ergo mentem és vagáltam…"
Halála után visszatér a bohém karikatúrista (Szabad Fold)
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Hungarian illustrators
Year of birth missing
2007 deaths