Victor
Weisz was
born in Berlin, Germany in 1913.
He attended the Berlin
School of Art but had to leave when his father died in 1928. Weisz
began having his cartoons published in German newspapers. As a member
of the Jewish community with socialist
political opinions, Weisz decided to leave Germany after Adolf
Hitler gained power.
Weisz arrived in London in 1935 and found
work as a political cartoonist with a variety of newspapers and journals
including the News Chronicle,
the Daily Mirror, the Daily
Mail, the New Statesman
and the Evening Standard.
By the 1940s Weisz, who signed his work, Vicky, had established himself
as Britain's leading left-wing cartoonist. Published collections of
his work include Aftermath:
Cartoons by Vicky
(1946), Unpublished
Cartoons by Vicky
(1947), New
Statesman Profiles
(1957), Vicky's
World
(1959) and Home
and Abroad
(1964). Depressed and suffering from insomnia, Victor
Weisz committed
suicide on 22nd February, 1966.
Vicky,
News Chronicle (July, 1944)
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