Jean Effel

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Jean Effel (actually François Lejeune ; born February 12, 1908 in Paris , † October 16, 1982 there ) was a French cartoonist and illustrator .

François Lejeune used the pseudonym Effel after his initials FL . He studied art, music and philosophy in Paris and spent some time in England. After unsuccessful attempts as a playwright and painter, he became one of the most famous French caricaturists. In 1933 he was accepted as a permanent member of the editorial staff of the Canard enchaîné . His caricatures were also printed in the Hamburger Abendblatt after the Second World War .

His most important works were a collection of anti-fascist caricatures (1935), the fairy tale Turelune le Cornepipeux (1944) and the five-volume series La Création du Monde ( The Creation of the World , from 1945). His cartoon Stvoření světa was released in 1958 in Czechoslovakia and in 1959 in the GDR.

In 1968 he was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize in the Soviet Union . On September 21, 1976 he was made an honorary member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

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  1. Book 2 (1950) 20.
  2. a b Michael Pilz: The six-day plan of God, in: Die Welt, December 24, 2013
  3. Artis 28 (1976) 8.

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