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Born in Budapest, Hungary,
in 1954, Attila Hejja emigrated to the United States with his
family in 1956. At age sixteen, he became an apprentice to artist
Harold Stevenson, himself a protege of Norman Rockwell, and
studied traditional painting for three and a half years. Mr.
Hejja - a nationally recognized aritst with a career spanning
nearly a quarter century - is known for his dramatic historical,
contemporary, and futuristic illustrations. His work has been
seen by millions of people on magazine and book covers and in
national and international ad campaigns and television commercials.
His diverse clientele includes U.S. government agencies and
major corporations in the industrial, publishing, and advertising
fields.
For a list of Mr. Hejja's clients, click
here.
Mr. Hejja's exceptional painting style and unique insight into
historical and modern Events have attracted a variety of commissions.
As an official NASA artists, he recorded the historic Space
Shuttle Program in a series of award-winning eyewitness portrayals.
His documentary art also includes commissions for the U.S. Air
Force, chronicling historic Air Force Events, for the United
Nations, producing a collection of commemorative stamps and
recording historic U.N. Security Council sessions, and for the
U.S. Postal Service, creating a special series of stamps on
space exploration. In 1981, he was invited by the Royal Saudi
government to portray its air force in a group of historical
paintings that are on permanent display at the Saudi National
Defense Headquarters.
Mr. Hejja's career has been wide and varied. For Paramount Pictures,
he designed the first Star Trek movie poster. His work has appeared
on over seventy-five book covers for major publishers, including
Simon & Schuster and Random House, and in such prestigious
magazines as National Geographic, TIME, Smithsonian Air and
Space, Scientific American, and Reader's Digest. As the leading
cover artist for Popular Mechanics magazine, he has produced
over twenty-five cover illustrations. His paintings hang in
the Pentagon and in the President's Reception Area at Andrews
Air Force Base, as well as in the boardrooms of national and
international corporations. Museums across the country exhibiting
his work include the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
in Washington, D.C., the Kennedy Space Center Museum in Cape
Canaveral, Florida, and the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton,
Ohio. His depiction of the NASA Space Shuttle Program's first
night launch mission is currently on display as part of a three-year
national tour sponsored by Daimler-Chrysler and the National
Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Hejja is a member of the New York
Society of Illustrators, where is a juror for life. He has also
been invited to jury numerous national and international exhibitions.
Mr. Hejja is the recipient of the Hamilton King Award, the highest
professionally bestowed honor for illustration in America. Most
recently, on November 1, 2000 he received Folio's prestigious
Ozzie Award for "Best American Magazine Cover of the Year"
for his March 2000 Popular Mechanics cover illustration. |
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