Emery I. Gondor Collection : 1912-2003 Bulk dates: 1926-1960
In: Leo Baeck Institute LBI Archives 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA
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Most of the materials in this collection relate to Gondor's professional career as an illustrator, creator of puzzles, photographer, and writer, primarily from his years in the United States. He worked on a wide range of publications, including books of manners, literature, children's stories, comic books, magazines, and newspapers. The items include working materials such as individual printed pages, drafts, transparencies, sketches, printing plates, proofs, correspondence, and reproductions of sketches. The collection also contains many finished products, such as published books, journals, and comic books. Additional material about Gondor's work in Germany and Austria in the 1920s and early 1930s is found in AR 25085 (Papers of Emery and Bertalan Gondor). ; The collection also contains a variety of other materials related to Emery Gondor's professional life as an artist, such as correspondence and photographs of his artwork. ; The personal documents in this collection include some educational documents, journalist identification cards and Hungarian passports, and some of Gondor's military documents. Also included are two expertly illustrated autograph books from the 1940s. ; The materials relating to Emery Gondor's brother, artist Bertalan Gondor, include correspondence from Bertalan to his wife Lilly in 1944. A small amount of original work is found here, including drawings in newspapers and a handwritten poem. Some vital documents and scholarly work about Bertalan are also included. ; Emerich I. Gondor was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1896. He attended the Royal Hungarian University and received his diploma from the National Academy of Art. As a young art teacher, he observed many children who had suffered during and after World War I and was inspired to learn more about their afflictions and the ways in which art could be used to help them. This prompted a lifelong interest in the field of psychology. In Budapest, the psychoanalyst, Sándor Ferenczi introduced Gondor to the subject of psychoanalysis and therapy. When Gondor moved to Vienna in 1920, to attend the Academy of Industrial Arts, he learned of Professor Csizeck's pioneering work in the field of progressive art education for children. He began working at the Viennese University Clinic, drawing and playing with emotionally disturbed children. From 1925 to 1926, Gondor attended seminars in Berlin and participated in the work of the Individual Psychological Association. He exhibited his own oil paintings during those years, lectured and worked as an illustrator for children's books and several newspapers. He was also named to the post of art director at Ullstein, Europe's largest publishing house. ; Gondor immigrated to the United States in 1935 and became a citizen in 1941. During World War II, he worked for the War Department and was Chief of the Technical Operation Unit in the Overseas Service for France and Germany for two years. This unit performed classified work in counter-espionage. Gondor was also an instructor at the training schools in New York, France and Germany, where he taught about the psychological problems of counter-espionage as well as wrote several classified manuals on the subject. After the war, Gondor was named head of the art and play therapy groups at the Retarded Children's Clinic and the Psychiatric Child Guidance Clinic at New York Medical College. In addition, he wrote and illustrated several books and taught art to juvenile delinquents at Youth House. In 1959, Gondor received his diploma in Clinical Psychology from New York State University. He became director of the art program at the Institute for Mental Retardation at New York Medical College in 1968. Emery Gondor died in 1977. ; Bertalan Gondor was Emery Gondor's brother. Bertalan was born in 1908 in Hungary. He studied art in Budapest and Vienna. 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 Mauthausen Concentration Camp. ; See also: Emery I. and Bertalan Gondor Collection, AR 25085 ; Two of Bertalan Gondor's works have been digitized, Dream, Labor Battalion and Dream. Over the Hills-Labour Battalion. ; Original art works removed to the LBI Art and Objects Collection ; Processed ; digitized
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Emery I. Gondor Collection : 1912-2003 Bulk dates: 1926-1960
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Göndör, Bertalan,1908-1945 ; Gondor, Emery,1890-1977. |
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Zeitschrift: | Leo Baeck Institute LBI Archives 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA |
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