Biography

Béla Tettamanti (Bánhida, December 10, 1946 – April 16, 2020) Mihály Munkácsy Award-winning Hungarian graphic and visual artist.

His drawings have been published in the press since 1975 (for the first time in the weekly Élét és Irodalom). Since 1981, he has regularly created book illustrations, book covers, fairy tale drawings and posters. Between 1982 and 1990, he was the graphic designer and illustrator-editor of Új Tükör, then for a year each from 1990, the newly independent Pesti Hírlap and Europa news magazine.

For more than two decades (until its termination), his drawings were published weekly in the supplement of Népszabadság HÉTVÉGE. Pester Lloyd (Budapest), KORUNK (Cluj), Alföld (Debrecen), PREMIER, Figyelő, COURRIER International (Paris), Múlt-Kor have regularly published his works in the last twenty years. In his last years, his works were continuously published in the weekly newspapers Vasárnapi Hírek and 168 hours.

In 1990, he was the director of the 1st International Caricature Festival exhibition organized in the Hungarian National Gallery, which festival was held several times in the following years, until 2002.

In 2003, he was the director and co-curator of László Réber's life work exhibition presented in the three large halls of the Vigadó Gallery, together with Krisztina Widengard (László Réber's daughter living abroad).

The most recent collection exhibition of his works was held a decade ago, in 2013, at the Petőfi Literary Museum.

He was one of the founding members of the KOKSZ contemporary caricature and satire art workshop.