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During World War Two, Artur Dream of a Madman, New York 1940 – the globe is flooded by the 2 29 BIOGRAPHY
Szyk presented his works at more German onslaught, and before the throne of Hitler the
than 25 exhibitions, including the representatives of the United States and Britain, in chains,
are begging for mercy
most important ones: "The New Or−
der" at the New York Public Library
in July 1941. "It is one of the heaviest
loads of dynamite thrown on Berlin,"
as the American press put it.
Another exhibition, "Poland's Part
in the War" was shown at the New
York Science and Technology
Museum in late the 1942 and early
1943. However, he traveled with his
works to military bases and
universities, including West Point or
the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Szyk's caricatures were seen during
the war by more than a million
American soldiers, they were also
used in film. Eleanor Roosevelt, the
wife of the U.S. president, called the
artist a one−man army. His diligence
and meticulousness, as well as
effectiveness in ridiculing the enemy,
were described in the American press. American magazines often published caricatures made
by the Jewish artist from Poland