Hellmann Mosonyi-Pfeiffer

After leaving school, Hellmann Mosonyi-Pfeiffer first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and then went with a scholarship of the Vienna Jewish community to study in Munich, Rome and Florence. On his return to Hungary, he settled in Budapest and joined the editorial staff of the magazine Neues Politisches Volksblatt. He designed posters for exhibitions of the Hungarian Applied Arts Association. He won first prize in several Hungarian competitions: the invited competition for an advertising poster for Brázay Franzbranntwein in 1899, the competition for a label for the Goldberger company the same year, and the competition to design the front page of the magazine Művészet in 1901. Among his successes abroad was first prize in a competition run by the Beiersdorf company in 1901. He also designed a poster for Parádi medicinal water, and bookplates and title pages for the publisher Singer and Wolfner.