Ed Arno

Ed Arno, actually: Arnold Edelstein, ( born July 17, 1916 in Innsbruck, † 27 May, 2008 New York City ) was a cartoonist and illustrator of children's books.

Life

Arnold gemstone family moved shortly after his birth to in the lying in Austrian Bukovina Chernivtsi, which was romanian after the First World War. Starting in 1936, studied art in Paris and Arno also had experiences in animation. On his return, he worked from 1939 as a stage designer. In 1941, he was ghettoized, deported to a German and then in a Romanian labor camp from which he was liberated in 1944 by the Red Army. From the now Ukrainian Chernivtsi Arno moved to Romania, where he worked as an artistic consultant and head of the children's magazines " Licurici ", " Arici Pogonici ", " Luminita " and " Pionerul ". As a book illustrator, he worked with the science- fiction writer Ion Hobana and children's book authors Betty Csog Bell and Else Kornis.

Due to the political repression and anti-Semitism in Romania, he emigrated in 1965 with his wife Rita in the United States, where he worked as a cartoonist for several major newspapers: The New York Times, Saturday Review, Cosmopolitan, Harvard Business Review and The New York Times Book Review, finally from 1969 for over thirty years for the New Yorker magazine, which brought 230 cartoons from him.

The books The Magic Fish and The Gingerbread Man were set to music by Artur Rubinstein. In 1969 he had an exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

In German language, published books

• Betty Csog Bell: The fountain pen, Bucharest: Youth Publishing House, 1965
• Else Kornis: Small Kathrein, Bucharest: Youth Publishing, 1955
• Else Kornis: Always forward: Verse, Bucharest: Youth Publishing, 1955