Victor Weisz

Life

He started early with sports and portrait caricatures and was a staff member at the Berlin 12 - clock sheet. His first cartoons in 1929 commented on the rise of the Nazi Party. As a Jew, he was banned from working. 1935 before he fled to England, he found about Hungary in Berlin with Kurt Wendler ( Nollendorfplatz 6) support and shelter.

In England he was called " Vicky " ( alongside David Low) one of the most popular and best cartoonists. In words and pictures he commented unerringly the day and world events. The political development and their own experience made ​​him mainly for opponents of the Nazi Party, but even communism was not spared. Its clients have included, inter alia, Evening Standard, Daily Mirror, the New Statesman and the News Chronicle.

" Vicky " 1966 chose to commit suicide.

Works (selection)

  • Vicky 's World. Political Cartoons. Secker & Warburg, London 1959.
  • Rod in the back. Selected cartoons from 1945 to 1952. Max Reinhardt, London, 1952.
  • New Statesman Profiles. Phoenix House, London, 1957 ( Sonderdr. from The new statesman and nation, 1954 /57).
  • In whiskey and cigar. Anecdotes about Winston Churchill '.' Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1956.
  • Ian Mackay ( Author), Stanley Baron ( ed.): The Real Mackay. News Chronicle Publ, London, 1953.
  • Fred Urquhart (eds.): W.S.C. A Cartoon Biography. Cassel, London, 1955 ( a drawn biography of Winston Churchill ).
April 25 1913 David Low (cartoonist) London Evening Standard Integrated Authority File
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