Tibor Gergely, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tibor Gergely

Hungarian American artist

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1900

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1978

Profession: graphic designer, illustrator, painter, university teacher

Nationality: Hungary, United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Tibor Gergely ( August 3, 1900 – January 13, 1978) was a Hungarian American artist best known for his illustration of popular children's picture books.
Born in Budapest in 1900, he studied art briefly in Vienna before immigrating to the United States in 1939, where he settled in New York City.
Largely a self-taught artist, he also contributed several covers of The New Yorker, mostly during the 1940s.
Among the most popular children's books Gergely illustrated are The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, Busy Day Busy People, The Little Red Caboose, The Fire Engine Book, Tootle, Five Little Firemen, Five Hundred Animals from A to Z, and Scuffy the Tugboat.
Many of his better known books were published by Little Golden Books.
His best work is collected in "The Great Big Book of Bedtime Stories".
He became a U.S.
citizen in 1948.
Gergely died in 1978, in New York. As of 2001, Tootle was the all-time third best-selling hardcover children's book in English, and Scuffy the Tugboat was the eighth all-time bestseller.