Willy Pogany
Hungarian artist (1882-1955) · Hungary · On the map · Artists · Died at 72
William Andrew Pogany was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips, Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Hunt Everett, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth.
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Facing pages from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Pogany.
Illustration for the frontispiece of The Wishing-Ring Man by Margaret Widdemer (Holt, 1917)
Pogany sued Whittaker Chambers for mistaking him as a relative of Comintern official Joseph Pogany (pictured)
"The Young Witch", illustration for a 1908 edition of Faust
"'How now?' cried a reassuring voice", illustration for "The Little White Feather", a fairy tale by Lilian GaskAbout this person
He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies. He paid great attention to botanical details. He used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors, oil paintings, and especially pen and ink.
