Victor Weisz

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Victor Weisz (Viktor Weiss) (born April 25, 1913 in Berlin , † February 23, 1966 in London ) was a painter and caricaturist.

Life

He started early with sports and portrait caricatures and worked for the Berliner 12-Uhr Blatt . His first caricatures in 1929 commented on the rise of the NSDAP . As a Jew, he was banned from working. In 1935, before he fled to England via Hungary, he found support and shelter from Kurt Wendler ( Nollendorfplatz 6) in Berlin .

In England he became one of the most popular and best caricaturists as "Vicky" (alongside David Low ). He accurately commented on the events of the day and the world in text and images. Political developments and his own experience made him primarily an opponent of the NSDAP, but communism was not spared either. Clients included the Evening Standard , Daily Mirror , New Statesman and News Chronicle .

"Vicky" committed suicide in 1966.

Works

Arthur Barratt in Vicky's World. Political cartoons
own works
  • Vicky's World. Political cartoons . Secker & Warburg , London 1959.
  • Stabs in the back. Selected cartoons from 1945 to 1952 . Max Reinhardt, London 1952.
  • New Statesman Profiles . Phoenix House, London 1957. (Special dr. From The new statesman and nation. 1954/57).
illustrated works
  • With whiskey and cigars. Anecdotes about Winston Churchill , Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1956.
  • Ian Mackay (Author), Stanley Baron (Ed.): The Real Mackay . News Chronicle Publ., London 1953.
  • Fred Urquhart (Ed.): WSC A Cartoon Biography . Cassel, London 1955. (a drawn biography of Winston Churchill)

literature

  • Kurt Flemig : Caricaturist Lexicon. Saur, Munich et al. 1993, ISBN 3-598-10932-6 .
  • Klaus Herding , Gunter Otto : “Nervous collecting organs of inner and outer life.” Caricatures. (= Artistic studies by the Ulmer Verein, Association for Art and Cultural Studies. 10). Anabas-Verlag Kämpf, Giessen 1980, ISBN 3-87038-073-X .
  • Zbyněk Zeman: The Third Reich in the caricature. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-453-35639-X .
  • Kurt Zentner (Ed.): The Red Thread. 80 artists from eleven countries describe the “changes” in the Kremlin tactics over the past three decades . Zeitbild-Verlag, Bad Godesberg 1959.
  • Russel Davies, Liz Ottaway: VICKY. Secker & Warburg, London 1987, ISBN 0-436-44759-2 .

Web links

Commons : Victor Weisz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

http://www.flickr.com/photos/porzellinus/sets/

personal data
SURNAME Weisz, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiss, Viktor; Vicky
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British painter and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1966
Place of death London