Shmuel Katz
Shmuel Katz (born as Alexander Katz August 18, 1926 in Vienna ; died March 26, 2010 in Naharija ) was a Hungarian-Israeli illustrator, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist.
Life
Alexander Katz's parents came from Hungary. The family lived in Austria and fled to Hungary after the annexation of Austria in 1938. Katz attended school in Budapest and joined the Zionist youth organization HaNoar HaTzioni . He was used for forced labor in occupied Yugoslavia, but escaped custody and hid in Budapest. During the mass deportations of Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp organized by the Eichmann Command and the Hungarian Gendarmerie and the murders of the Arrow Cross members , he found shelter in the " Glass House ", which was under the protection of the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz .
After the liberation of Hungary, Katz began studying architecture at the Technical University of Budapest . In 1946 he tried to board the ship Knesset Israel the illegal immigration (Alija) to Palestine , but was applied by the British and in Cyprus interned. Shmuel Katz managed to enter the country the following year, and in 1948 he became a co-founder of Kibbutz Ga'aton ( Mateh Ascher ). Katz lived there for the next sixty years. He designed the dining room in the kibbutz with wood carvings in the style of Hungarian folklore.
From 1950 to 1953, Katz illustrated the children's page of the Al Hamishmar newspaper . He then briefly studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and returned to the Al Hamishmar newspaper as an illustrator.
They processed a trip to Africa with the writer Nathan Shaham in 1958 in the book A Journey to the Land of the Kush . In 1976 he traveled to Iran , 1979 to Egypt and 1983 with Shalom Achshaw to Hungary. Katz was a war painter in several wars for the Israel Defense Forces and was accredited as a draftsman for foreign policy events. Katz was one of the draftsmen in the courtroom during the Eichmann trial in 1962 .
Katz's illustrations and caricatures have also been published in the Davar Hashavua and Maariw newspapers. The Swiss Nebelspalter also brought caricatures of him.
He illustrated over 150 books, including 40 children's books. The book cover on Leah Goldberg's room was used as a template for an Israeli postage stamp. Katz also illustrated the first eight books in the Chasamba adventure series. Katz's work has been exhibited widely in Israel, and reproductions of his watercolor views of Jerusalem are popular tourist items.
He has two daughters, one of whom is married to the politician Dov Khenin .
Works (selection)
- Shemuel Alexander Katz: My fate was the exception: memories of a draftsman and caricaturist of Austria, Hungary and Israel . Edited by Martha Keil on behalf of the Institute for the History of the Jews in Austria . Graz: Styria, 2001 ISBN 978-3-222-12876-9
- Book illustrations
literature
- Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 134f.
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 178f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
Web links
- Literature by and about Shmuel Katz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Shmuel Katz in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Shmuel (Alexander) Katz , at Yad Vashem
- Nirit Anderman: Shmuel Katz, 1926-2010. Caricaturist and Illustrator of Israel's Best-loved Children's Books Dies at 83 , in Haaretz , March 28, 2010
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Katz, Shmuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Katz, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-Israeli artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2010 |
| Place of death | Nahariya |