us-005578-irn49855-irn520304
date: after 1940
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Unfinished ink over graphite, image of three figures, Hitler, Herman Goerring, monkey, all dressed in uniforms bearing nazi insignia.
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title: Satirical drawing by Arthur Szyk depicting Hitler and Goering as monkees
identifier: irn520304
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scope and content: Satirical drawing created by Arthur Szyk in the United States. In 1921, Szyk moved to Paris to escape Bolshevik rule in his native Poland, where established a career as one of the greatest modern creators of illuminated miniatures. In June 1940, Nazi Germany conquered France. Szyk emigrated to the United States that year and became known for his anti-Fascist political caricatures. Throughout his career, he used his art in support of human dignity, freedom, and tolerance.
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history: The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Alexandra and Joseph Braciejowski, the daughter and son-in-law of Arthur Szyk.
record resource extent: overall: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm)
history: Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was born to Jewish parents, Solomon and Eugenia Szyk in Łódź, Poland, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had his first public art exhibition at age 15, and then went to Paris, France, for formal art training at the Academie Julian. He visited Palestine in 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted into the Russian Army and served in World War I. He married Julia Liekerman in 1916, and they had a son, George, in 1917. In 1918, Poland regained independence, but continued to fight a series of regional wars to secure its boundaries. Between 1919 and 1920, during Poland's war against the Soviet Bolsheviks, Syzk served as a cavalry officer and artistic director of the Department of Propaganda for the Polish Army in Łódź. In 1921, he and his family moved to Paris where his daughter, Alexandra was born the following year. Szyk was well known for his illuminations and book illustrations, in a style reminiscent of Persian miniatures. He worked on several significant projects in France, including illustrating the Statute of Kalisz, the Haggadah, and a series of watercolors on the American Revolutionary War. The themes of his most admired works, democracy and Judaism, were already well established, earning him both fame and significant commissions. In 1934, Szyk traveled to the United States for exhibitions of his work and to receive the George Washington Bicentennial Medal, awarded by the US Congress. He resided in England from 1937-1940 to supervise the publication of the Haggadah. In 1939, following Germany's invasion of Poland, he focused on producing anti-Nazi editorial cartoons published in many Western newspapers and magazines. During the German occupation of Poland, his 70 year old mother, Eugenia, and her Polish companion were forced to live in the Łódź ghetto. In 1943, they were transported to Majdanek concentration camp and killed. In late 1940, Szyk immigrated to th…