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György Rózsahegyi (1940–2010) was a Hungarian caricaturist and painter.
His life
György Rózsahegyi was born inBudapest
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, Hungary
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on 21 November 1940. His father, ''Jenő Rózsahegyi'' was a world-wide known, professional boxing champion, who was running a reputable sport school in Budapest before WW2 and whose hobby was painting.
His son followed him in both, however an injury stopped him from further sport successes. Nevertheless, drawing become the passion of Rózsahegyi as a child; he began making portraits of almost everyone who crossed his way. Becoming aware of the talent of his son, his father put the paintbrush down and handed him over his painting accessories, so he also picked up painting at the age of 14 and carried out his artistic education with the help of his masters—János Kmetty among others.
It was quite early that fine-arts people realised his unique caricature style, so he changed his job as a graphic artist to half time, in order that he could fulfill the orders of the largest Hungarian dailies as freelance.
Besides his activity as a caricaturist, Rózsahegyi was continuously involved in painting, he created landscapes, still lifes, nude paintings, and portraits of course. His paintings and caricatures were shown to the public in 40 exhibitions, and he himself participated in numerous events, where the spectators could admire how one can create a caricature which perfectly captures the character of the model without precise planning, with a few lines within a few seconds.
His work, his style
György Rózsahegyi developed a unique caricature style, with the help of which he could reflect the characteristics of a person based on the first impression within seconds. He made a lot of efforts to draw every single celebrity that showed up in Hungary, and those who did not were captured by him during his trips abroad, like the ones to the Munich and Los Angeles Olympics. This way, he managed to draw countless world famous personalities, fromLiz Taylor
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to Roger Moore
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, from Pelé
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to Franz Beckenbauer
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, from Alberto Moravia
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, and from Helmut Schmidt
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Besides his activity as a caricaturist, György Rózsahegyi was continuously involved in painting, he created landscapes, still lifes, nude paintings, and portraits of course. During his career as a painter, he had the most important personalities of the Hungarian cultural life as models, like Lajos Kassák
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, Ferencz Karinthy
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, Tibor Déry
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and many others.
His paintings and caricatures were shown to the public in 40 exhibitions, and György Rózsahegyi himself participated in numerous events, where the spectators could admire how one can create a caricature which perfectly captures the character of the model without precise planning, with a few lines within a few seconds.
His books
*Maszk nélkül, 1967 *Új magyar parnasszus, 1973 *Skalpok és Trofeák, 1982 *Karikatúrastadion, 1983References
http://nol.hu/kultura/elhunyt_rozsahegyi_gyorgy-724201 https://muosz.hu/2020/11/17/80-eves-lenne-rozsahegyi-gyorgy-a-legendas-karikaturista/ https://24.hu/elet-stilus/2018/02/27/vilagsztarok-csaptak-budapesten-a-kadar-korszak-legnagyobb-bulijat/ http://www.fonaklap.hu/roacutezsahegyi-gyoumlrgy.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Rozsahegyi, Gyorgy 1940 births 2010 deaths Hungarian caricaturists Artists from Budapest