Al Hirschfeld

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Al Hirschfeld

Albert "Al" Hirschfeld (born June 21, 1903 in St. Louis , Missouri , † January 20, 2003 in New York City , New York ) was an American cartoonist .

Life

When Al Hirschfeld began his career in 1920, he was cleaning brushes at Goodwyn Pictures , and over seventy years later (1996) he was named one of New York's six landmarks. In the intervening period, Hirschfeld had risen to become the most famous American cartoonist. His portraits of celebrities, made up of clear, dancing lines, have graced posters, books and the New York Times. At the end of the 1990s he supported the production in an advisory capacity on a sequence for the film Fantasia 2000 . Hirschfeld married Dolly Haas in 1943 . From then on, Hirschfeld hid the name of his daughter Nina, who was born two years later, in every drawing (in capital letters ); if it is included more than once in the caricature, which has also become a search image , he noted the number with a number next to his signature.

The year he died he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Honors

The Martin Beck Theater on New York's Broadway was renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theater in 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Al Hirschfeld. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hirschfeld, Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschfeld, Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 2003
Place of death New York City , New York, United States