Hugo Gellert
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Hugo Gellert, born May 3, 1892 in Budapest, Hungary, died December 6, 1985 in Freehold, New Jersey, was an American illustrator and satirist. He sat on the editorial board of The Liberator, monthly arts and letters magazine of the Workers Party of America.
"He was a very well-known artist in this country during the 1930s, yet he has essentially been forgotten. Today he is perhaps more infamous for his passionate commitment to leftist political agitation than for his contribution to American art, but Gellert strongly disavowed any distinction between the two. He professed that, for him, political agitation and art were the same thing." (James Wechsler, CUNY Art History Department: Save Gellert's Seward Park Murals)
His brother Lawrence was a music collector who in the 1930s has documented black protest traditions in the South of the United States.
