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    Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink

    • WWII
    • art
    • propaganda
    Warspot editorial
    02 July '20

    Born in 1894 in Łódź, the son of the director of a weaving factory, a Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk, was a citizen of several countries during his lifetime. He was born in the Russian Empire, lived in Poland, which regained its independence, worked in France, North Africa, Palestine and Great Britain, and became most famous in the United States, where he died in 1951.

    During his life, Szyk was a witness of two world wars and many local conflicts, the redefinition of his own Poland and other countries he knew well. This could not leave a mark in his work.

    The first drawings that caught Arthur's parents' attention were made by him at the age of 6 and dedicated to the boxer rebellion in China. Then the boy was interested in biblical subjects. His father sent him to Paris to study drawing, where Arthur spent four years. He finished his art education already on the eve of World War I in Krakow. In following years, Szyk was an infantryman in the Russian army and a cavalryman in the Polish army. And by the end of the Soviet-Polish war, found himself as head of the propaganda department of the Polish army. Perhaps it was the familiarity with the military life, that played later a major role in shaping of the own style of Szyk, that was known for small detail on the uniforms.

    Szyk worked as an illustrator in the interwar years. His most important works were focused on biblical subjects and the history of Polish Jews. However, after Hitler came to power, his drawings became increasingly politicized. Made with colored ink and pen, they brought him the greatest fame later.

    These are the drawings in today's selection.

    ​” The Map Maker: Now that you’ve joined us, the Führer will make a special map for you!” Hitler finishes drawing a map of “German South America, while Tojo, Franco, Mussolini and Mufti Amin al-Husseini line up with orders that take Goebbels and Goering (1942) - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    ” The Map Maker: Now that you’ve joined us, the Führer will make a special map for you!” Hitler finishes drawing a map of “German South America, while Tojo, Franco, Mussolini and Mufti Amin al-Husseini line up with orders that take Goebbels and Goering (1942)
    ​The beaten Mussolini, leaning on a stick, humbly rambles on a chain to where he is led by Goering, Tojo and death with a scythe (1942) - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    The beaten Mussolini, leaning on a stick, humbly rambles on a chain to where he is led by Goering, Tojo and death with a scythe (1942)
    ​”Satan Leads the Ball”. Satan leads Germany, its rules, bankers and industrialists, as well as satellite-states (1942) - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    ”Satan Leads the Ball”. Satan leads Germany, its rules, bankers and industrialists, as well as satellite-states (1942)
    ​Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie kicks Mussolini under the supervision of a British soldier - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie kicks Mussolini under the supervision of a British soldier
    ​”The Invaders”. British soldiers and a policeman escorting German pilots, submariners, SS, and so on - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    ”The Invaders”. British soldiers and a policeman escorting German pilots, submariners, SS, and so on
    ​”Panama 1941”. Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo and Franco as Mexican gangsters - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    ”Panama 1941”. Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo and Franco as Mexican gangsters
    ​” Enemies of the Reich”. Hitler points to the Jews - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    ” Enemies of the Reich”. Hitler points to the Jews
    ​On the left: The beginning of the 2nd World War was certainly perceived by the Polish Jew Szyk. Later in his cartoons the USSR began to be portrayed in a different way, and in 1951 the artist even came under investigation on suspicion of sympathy for the Communists. On the right: «December 7, 1941». Japan, incited by Germany and Italy, is stabbing the back of the United States - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    On the left: The beginning of the 2nd World War was certainly perceived by the Polish Jew Szyk. Later in his cartoons the USSR began to be portrayed in a different way, and in 1951 the artist even came under investigation on suspicion of sympathy for the Communists.
    On the right: «December 7, 1941». Japan, incited by Germany and Italy, is stabbing the back of the United States
    ​«The New Orderlies». Hitler and Tojo are chasing a gang of losers to the slaughter, and Mussolini's horse is weaving behind him - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    «The New Orderlies». Hitler and Tojo are chasing a gang of losers to the slaughter, and Mussolini's horse is weaving behind him
    ​Colorful, medal-bespattered “Fat Hermann” Goering was one of Szyk’s favorite characters - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    Colorful, medal-bespattered “Fat Hermann” Goering was one of Szyk’s favorite characters
    ​” A Madman’s Dream”. Great Britain and the United States in shackles, Hitler sits on a skin with «Der Untermensch Verrecke» written on it - Highlights for Warspot: Arthur Szyk’s color ink | Warspot.net
    ” A Madman’s Dream”. Great Britain and the United States in shackles, Hitler sits on a skin with «Der Untermensch Verrecke» written on it

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