Born in 1912 in Budapest, Imredy worked for the railroad while he studied there with sculptors Sandor Boldogfai Farkas and Bela Ohman and painters Istvan Szonyi and Vilmos Aba Novak. In 1957, he emigrated to Vancouver with his daughter where he worked as a sculptor and took part in numerous group exhibitions across Canada and Europe. Working in bronze, wood, granite, limestone, fibreglass and concrete, he produced religious sculptures for churches, colleges and schools, as well as portraits, busts and life-size sculpture. Among his better known commissions are "Girl in a Wetsuit", a life-size bronze for Stanley Park, a seated bronze of the Rt. Hon. Louis St Laurent for Parliament Hill, Ottawa, and the "Lady of Justice", Law Courts, New Westminster, BC. He was a member of the Sculptors' Society of Canada, the Sculptors' Society of British Columbia and past president of the Vancouver Historical Society. He died Oct.12,1994, aged 82.