József Faragó

Faragó prepared for a career in trade, but left to study painting in the Munich Academy of Art between 1887 and 1888. He made his living from caricatures from 1890 onwards. After six years in the United States, he moved to Budapest in 1894 and worked for the magazines Borsszem Jankó and subsequently Kakas Márton. He returned to Germany in 1903 and settled in Berlin. In the years following the turn of the century, his work broadened to incorporate engravings, lithographs and other branches of graphic art, and the Museum of Applied Arts holds bookplates he designed. He was employed by many humorous magazines in Hungary and abroad (Fliegende Blätter, Puck, Borsszem Jankó, Kakas Márton and Ulk).