Monday, August 03, 2020

Sharp, Caricaturist, Views Jabotinsky

Found in the PM newspaper of June 25, 1940, five weeks before Ze'ev Jabotinsky's death:



Bio information:

Leon Schliefer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He attended the Academy for Arts and Industry there and continued his studies in Kraków, Poland, Berlin, and Munich. After service in World War I, he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp* and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.

He lived in Forest Hills. He was one of the main illustrators for the comic adaptations of novels that King Features distributed in cooperation with the Book-of-the-Month Club. Sharp illustrated 'The Seventh Cross' (1942), 'Combined Operations' (1943), 'Into Occupied France and Out' (1943) and 'Betrayal from the East' (1944).

A 1933 example:



* In Yiddish, "sharp" is שאַרף (scharf).

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