The Diaries and Letters of Ferdinand Horvath
In 2014, while researching the first volume of the They Drew As They Pleased book series, The Hidden Art of Disney’s Golden Age (Chronicle Books, 2015), [Didier Ghez] had the pleasure of locating the long-lost diaries of Disney concept artist Ferdinand Horvath. The diaries covered all of Horvath’s life from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The first half was written in German, the other in English. The same dealer who had preserved those diaries for close to 25 years also preserved a collection of original letters from Horvath. A large part of them, written in Hungarian, were sent in 1933 to his wife, Elly. Ferdinand had moved from New York to Los Angeles, leaving Elly behind since his Disney contract was short-term. When things started to stabilize professionally, the flow of letters stopped abruptly since Elly had joined Ferdinand in Los Angeles.
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Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - The Diaries and Letters of Ferdinand Horvath
- 2 - A Short Autobiography by Ken Peterson (Ken Peterson)
- 3 - The Letters of Bob Givens to Hardie Gramatky (Bob Givens)
- 4 - The Letters of Sylvia Holland (Sylvia Holland)
- 5 - Tyrus Wong interview (Michael Barrier)
- 6 - John Hench interview (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 7 - John Hench interview (Charles Solomon)
- 8 - Marc Davis interview (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 9 - Alice Davis interview (EMC West)
- 10 - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn interview (David Tietyen)
- 11 - Floyd Norman interview (Jim Korkis)
- 12 - Stacey Hartley, daughter of Paul R. Hartley (Didier Ghez)
- 13 - Bill Cottrell interview (Jay Horan)
- 14 - Lillian Disney, Diane Disney Miller, Jenny Miller interview - Recorded in October 1982 at EPCOT in Florida (Bob Allen, Jim Korkis (transcript))
- 15 - Glen Keane iInterview (Charles Solomon)
- 16 - Darrell Van Citters interview (Didier Ghez)
