us-005578-irn49855-irn9836
title: Arthur Szyk drawing
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biographical 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…
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1946-01-01
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn49855-irn9836/alternateIDs/1
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1946-12-31
type: RecordSet
record resource extent: overall: Height: 16.930 inches (43.002 cm) | Width: 14.490 inches (36.805 cm) | Depth: 0.980 inches (2.489 cm)
identifier: irn9836
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
is or was included in: us-005578-irn49855
scope and content: Drawing of satirical subject matter relating to Second World War created in the United States.
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn49855-irn9836/acquisitions/1
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Full length image of man in Nazi uniform, holding smoking gun in right hand with image of prone figure in backgound. Nazi figure has monacle in right eye, and uniform has many decorations such as iron cross medal and swastika armband. frame "WHO SAID I AM A KILLER?.." In graphite lower left edge
has record set type: Item
archival 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.