Uriel Birnbaum

Uriel Birnbaum ( born November 13, 1894 in Vienna, † December 9, 1956 in Amersfoort, Netherlands ) was an Austrian Jewish painter, cartoonist, writer and poet.

Life

Uriel Birnbaum was the youngest son of the Zionists and Jewish philosopher Nathan Birnbaum and the Pink grain product. From 1915 to 1917 he completed military service and was wounded during the war, after which one of his legs had to be amputated. In the 1920s, he served as an illustrator for the children's magazine The Rainbow, for which he also created some picture stories. For his sonnets Band In God's war, he received in 1923 the Farmer Field Award.

From 1939 he lived in exile in the Netherlands, where he worked on the novel Habsburg monarchist utopia.

As a disabled veteran in "protected mixed marriage" he was not deported, found himself, however, from 1943 to 1945 forced to hide. His brother Menachem, however, came in a German concentration camp killed.

1959 Birnbaum alley in Vienna-Favoriten was named after him.