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Arthur Szyk

Arthur Szyk (1894 - 1951) was active/lived in Connecticut / Poland.  Arthur Szyk is known for Illustrator-illuminator, cartoonist.

Arthur Szyk (b. 1894 / d. 1951)

Arthur Szyk was born in Lódz, Poland to a Jewish family on June 16, 1894.  During this time Lodz was under Russian rule.

Sent to Paris, France in 1909, by his father, Szyk studied at Académie Julian. Despite being exposed to modern art/artist, Szyk kept his works in traditional ways.  During 1912 and 1914 the teenage artist produced numerous political themed drawings and caricatures that were published in the Lódz satirical magazine Smiech.

Returning back to Poland in 1913, Szyk continued his studies at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (under Austrian rule at that time).  At the beginning of 1914, Szyk and a group and other Polish-Jewish artists and writers organized by the Jewish Cultural Society Hazamir set off on a journey to Palestine.  Unfortunately, the journey was cut short that same year by the outbreak of World War I.  In late 1914, he was conscripted to the Russian army.  Szyk managed   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2869 characters.]  Artist bio

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