Billiard Players

Go?ndo?r, Bertalan1934

Two men with queues and billiard balls. The figures of the men are created in the negative space of the print. Signed, titled and dated along bottom.

Details

Title: Billiard Players
Creator: Go?ndo?r, Bertalan
Creator Lifespan: 1908/1945
Date Created: 1934
Subject: Billiard players
Repository: Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History
Physical Dimensions: w23 x h27.1 cm
Artist Biography: Bertalan Gondor was born in 1908 in Budapest, Hungary. He studied art in Budapest and Vienna. Bertalan was Emery Gondor's brother. After the Hungarian White Terror (1919-1920), he moved from Budapest to Vienna. Bertalan finally returned to Budapest once Austria was annexed in 1938. There he worked as an artist and an illustrator. During World War II, he was deported and conscripted into forced labor service in eastern Hungary. In March of 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and took control of the Hungarian ghettos and camps. Bertalan was then deported to Poland and placed in a camp called Harka. He died in March 1945 in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
Type: Linocut
Rights: This material may be used for personal, research, and educational purposes only. Any other use without prior authorization is prohibited. Please contact LBI librarians at lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org for further information.
External Link: LBI Art Collection, Center for Jewish History
Medium: Ink on tissue paper

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