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Ferdinand Horvath

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Not specified

Birthday

August 28, 1891(82)

Day of Death

November 11, 1973

Place of Birth

Budapest - Hungary

Also Known As

Nandor Mahali LowensteinFerdinand Huszti Horvath

Ferdinand Horvath

Directing

Biography

From Wikipedia France: His father, a merchant liqueurs and pastries, hopes to see his son take over his business but prefers Nandor begin studying engineering, he stopped in favor of that of Fine Arts by moving to Paris. That's when the outbreak of the First World War . He returned to Hungary to perform military service but he was captured by the Russian army which imprisons two and half years, the period Horvath wrote a book entitled Captured published in 1930. After an escape and an adventurous journey He joined Budapest and resumes fighting. In 1920, just married, it fails to live drawing and painting. Horvath The couple decided to emigrate to the United States, landing in New YorkNovember 11, 1921. Ferdinand survives as a window painter in the building but manages to find work in the studios of Paul Terry. After his US citizenship in 1927, he opted for work of a freelance illustrator and performs between 1929 and 1931, five collections of illustrations of the universe of traditional tales. Success is with go quickly: his watercolors, ink drawings of China and miniatures are presented in an exhibition at the Waldorf-Astoria. He joined the Disney Studios as an animator on 7 January 1933 at the request of Walt Disney who had been attracted by its representations of anthropomorphic animals and worked on short films of Silly Symphonies , giving a more European style with Disney movies. His first contribution was as an animator and layout artist on Old King Cole (1933). B…