Born Vilmos Lévy, the only child of Laslos Lévy and Katalin Freund. Sculptor and script writer, educated in Vienna he studied medicine before turning to sculpture in Paris and Prague. His father was a doctor and his mother a psychoanalyst, a pupil of Sigmund Freud, who later sat to Lambda in London for the portrait now in the Freud Museum. During the war, he worked for the Crown Film Unit and wrote propaganda scripts for the BBC. Finding time for sculpture when he could, he executed a quick sketch in clay of the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, in the minister's office in 1939. In 1945, meeting Nye Bevan, paved the way for what is perhaps one of Lambda's most successful portrait heads. He then began to develop his writing for the theatre. He wrote plays which were at least performed and his translations brought a number of central European works to the British public. In 1958 he married the actress Betty Paul and, though both had previously been married. Among a handful of some of the most forceful portrait heads of the time, the best are undoubtedly those of Aneurin Bevan (1945) and Christopher Fry (1951) which, with their vigour and physicality, stand out among the relatively sober bronzes in the post-war galleries of the National Portrait Gallery.
Born Vilmos Lévy, the only child of Laslos Lévy and Katalin Freund. Sculptor and script writer, educated in Vienna he studied medicine before turning to sculpture in Paris and Prague. His father was a doctor and his mother a psychoanalyst, a pupil of Sigmund Freud, who later sat to Lambda in London for the portrait now in the Freud Museum. During the war, he worked for the Crown Film Unit and wrote propaganda scripts for the BBC. Finding time for sculpture when he could, he executed a quick sketch in clay of the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, in the minister's office in 1939. In 1945, meeting Nye Bevan, paved the way for what is perhaps one of Lambda's most successful portrait heads. He then began to develop his writing for the theatre. He wrote plays which were at least performed and his translations brought a number of central European works to the British public. In 1958 he married the actress Betty Paul and, though both had previously been married. Among a handful of some of the most forceful portrait heads of the time, the best are undoubtedly those of Aneurin Bevan (1945) and Christopher Fry (1951) which, with their vigour and physicality, stand out among the relatively sober bronzes in the post-war galleries of the National Portrait Gallery.
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