His Life

György Rózsahegyi was born in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 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 who's hobby was painting.

His son followed him in both, however an injury stopped 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 uniqe 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 modell without precise planning, with a few lines within a few seconds.

His Work, his Style

György Rózsahegyi developed a uniqe 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 olimpics. This way he managed to draw countless world famous personalities, from Liz Taylor to Roger Moore

Roger Moore

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, from Pelé

Pelé

However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...

 to Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser because of his elegant style, his leadership, his first name "Franz" , and his dominance on the football pitch...

, from Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism....

 to Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....

, from Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...

 to Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

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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 carrier as painter he had the most important personalities of the Hungarian cultural life as modells, like Lajos Kassák

Lajos Kassák

Lajos Kassák was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde and occasional translator, was the father of many modernisms....

, Hilda Gobbi, Boris Palotai, Ferencz Karinthy, Tibor Déry

Tibor Dery

Tibor Déry was a Hungarian writer. In his early years he was a supporter of communism, but after being excluded from the ranks of the Hungarian Communist Party in 1953 he started writing satire on the communist regime in Hungary.Georg Lukács praised Dery as being 'the greatest depicter of human...

 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 modell without precise planning, with a few lines within a few seconds.

His Books

• Új magyar parnasszus, 1967
• Maszk nélkül, 1973
• Skalpok és Trofeák, 1982
• Karikatúrastadion, 1983