Emery (also spelt as Imre or Emerich) Kelen (1896–1978) was a Hungarian caricaturist.

Biography

He was born in 1895 in Győr, Hungary.[1] He enrolled in an art school in Vienna; however, with the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army.[2] While on the battlefield, he contracted typhus and was sent to a hospital in Croatia to recover.[2] After his recovery, he was called to the front; however, he was found to be overwhelmed by his war experience and sent to a military insane hospital in Trnava.[2] He began his career as a caricaturist by drawing caricatures of the statesmen who attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.[3] Shortly afterward, he moved to Switzerland.[4] There, in collaboration with another Hungarian Jew, Alois Derso, he worked for fifteen years at the League of Nations in Geneva.[4][5] Their work, signed as Kelen-Derso, appeared in numerous European newspapers and gained global recognition.[5] Besides the League of Nations, he also created caricatures at the 1925 Locarno Conference, the 1933 London Economic Conference, and the 1932 World Disarmament Conference.[6] In 1938, he emigrated to the United States.[3] There, he continued his collaboration with Derso until 1950.[3]

He married Betty Stones on 25 September 1940, and they had one child, Juli Kelen.[2] He died in 1978 in Vienna, Austria.[7]

Honours

He won the Hungarian Military Cross in the WW1.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Kelen, Imre". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  2. ^ a b c d "Derso and Kelen Collection - Philadelphia Area Archives". findingaids.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  3. ^ a b c d Roth, Cecil (1972). Encyclopaedia Judaica: A-Z. Encyclopaedia Judaica. p. 897.
  4. ^ a b United Nations Archives Geneva. "Research Guides: League of Nations: Disarmament: Caricatures of the World Disarmament Conference". libraryresources.unog.ch. Archived from the original on 2024-05-22. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  5. ^ a b Lengyel, Emil (1948). Americans from Hungary. Internet Archive. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co. p. 288.
  6. ^ "Caricature - The University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  7. ^ "Political Cartoons · Political Cartoons during World War II · The Hungarian Archives". www.hungarianarchives.org. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery_Kelen
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