Rachel Gold
Rachel Gold (* 1978 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) is a fictional Austrian political cartoonist , graphic artist and cartoonist . In these fields she works both as a draftsman and as a copywriter. Rachel Gold is - with her own drawing style and her own "biography" - the pseudonym of the cartoonist Markus Szyszkowitz .
She works for the Tiroler Tageszeitung and the Wiener Zeitung , in which she publishes articles.
Biographical
According to her fictional biography, Rachel Gold grew up in Israel and has lived in Vienna , the city of her grandfather's birth, since 1999 . She has been a freelance artist since 2004. In October 2008 she began to draw political caricatures for the Wiener Zeitung , the Tiroler Tageszeitung followed in November and from August 2009 to March 2010 she also drew regularly for the Kleine Zeitung . At their first exhibition, together with Klaudia Wanner, in the Theater am Alsergrund on September 11, 2009, Jutta Pichler, director of the Krems Caricature Museum , gave the opening speech. Since February 2011, her cartoons have also been regularly published and syndicated on MSNBC 's “Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index” .
Political commitment
Gold is together with u. a. Michael Wittmann and Harald Havas founding member of “Comics gegen Rechts”, an initiative by Austrian comic artists, to “set a signal against the incidents of right-wing and right-wing extremist 'slip-ups' and manifestations of all kinds that have increased in recent times.”
Publications
- Rachel Gold: Political Cartoons 2008 - 2009. Verlag Fassbaender, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902575-22-7
Exhibitions
- 2009: Cartoons - caricatures in the Theater am Alsergrund; Opening by Jutta Pichler, head of the Krems Caricature Museum.
- 2011: TO THE MUSEUM! THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW , 10 years of the Krems Caricature Museum;
Web links
- Literature by and about Rachel Gold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of gold
- Rachel Gold on msnbc
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secrets of a Woman, Editorial Cartoonist, Revealed with a comment of approval by Markus Szyszkowitz.
- ↑ Biography on Rachel Gold's homepage
- ↑ Exhibition invitation (PDF; 28 kB)
- ↑ msnbc, Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index
- ↑ Members of the "Comics Against Right" initiative
- ↑ The Standard June 3, 2009
- ↑ "GO TO THE MUSEUM! THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW" in the Caricature Museum Krems ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 24, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gold, Rachel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szyszkowitz, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |