Oscar Berger (cartoonist)
Oscar Berger (May 12, 1901 – May 15, 1997) was a well-known caricaturist and cartoonist.
Berger was born in Prešov, Slovakia. He became a cartoonist in Prague and studied art in Paris and Berlin. In Berlin, he secured an assignment with one of the largest Berlin daily newspapers and was one of the few journalists admitted to the 1923 Munich trial that followed Hitler's abortive putsch.
Later, when Hitler came to power, Berger's cartoons angered Hitler and Berger was forced to leave the country. He spent time in Budapest, Paris, and Geneva, where he attended numerous sessions at the League of Nations, and finally settling in London in 1935 where he worked for the Daily Telegraph. During the 1950s, Berger attended many sessions at the United Nations and illustrated virtually every important world leader to be seen at there.
His work subsequently appeared in Life, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and Le Figaro, among numerous other publications.
Oscar Berger's works were described by a contemporary as:
- "kindly rather than critical, mildly satirical but never vicious. They aim to entertain, to identify a sitter so unmistakably that a few telling lines will be telegraphed at a glance.
Some of Berger's books:
- Aesop's Foibles (1947)
- a' la Carte - The Gourmet's Phantasmagoria in Fifty Cartoons (1948)
- Famous Faces - Caricaturist's Scrapbook (1950)
- My Victims - How to Caricature (1952)
- I Love You - A selection of love poetry (1960)
- The Presidents - From George Washington to the Present (1968)
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Famous quotes containing the words oscar and/or berger:
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)