Albert
Hirschfeld was
born in St
Louis on
21st June, 1903. When Hirschfeld was a teenager the family moved to
Manhattan in New York.
In 1920 Hirschfeld began work at Selznick Studios. Four years later
he travelled to Europe where he studied art. When he returned to the
United States he became a regular contributor
to the New Masses. In
1933 Hirschfeld became one of the first cartoonists in America to
attack the rule of Adolf Hitler.
He
also co-edited a satirical journal, Americana,
with Alexander King in the early 1930s and has written and illustrated
many books. Hirschfeld
also worked for the New
York Herald Tribune and the New
York Times. His caricatures of theatrical personalities appeared
in several publications.
His
caricatures have appeared in numerous other publications including
the New
York World, the Collier's
Weekly,
the Daily Telegraph and Brooklyn
Eagle.
Hirschfeld also illustrated several books including Manhattan
Oases (1932), Westward Ha!
(1948), Swiss Family Perelman
(1950), Show Business Is No Business
(1951), Treadmill to Oblivion
(1954), The Lively Years (1973),
Hirschfeld by Hirschfeld (1979),
Hirschfeld
on Line (1999)
and
Hirschfeld's Hollywood (2001).
Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Katherine Houghton and
Sidney Poitier in the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
(1968).
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