Word: steinberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names in the wry gallery of U.S. satiric artists are Thurber, Arno, Bemelmans. By last week the name of Ensign Saul Steinberg, U.S.N.R., was added to the list...
...Steinberg was about to go to war, but he would leave behind him a wickedly funny, highly distinctive body of work that augured well for a great postwar career. At Manhattan's Wakefield Gallery, Steinberg was giving his first U.S. one-man show-water colors, tempera and line drawings like the sidesplitting And How Is Business...
...Steinberg's drawings, which have most frequently appeared in The New Yorker, have a timeless, durable, hieroglyphic quality, as if their acid comments on human affairs had eaten into stone. Steinberg has a great liking for bits of ornamental detail (they are almost his trademark) as in his drawing of Hermann Göring drenched with medals. One of the outstanding drawings in his show portrayed the two sparsely clad Axis dictators in a theater dressing room ("Benito & Adolf-Aryan Dancers...
Blond, bespectacled Saul Steinberg, 29, was born in Rumania, has the serious appearance of most earnest satirists. His father was a box manufacturer, his mother "made wonderful cakes with all sorts of decorations. They were so beautiful I didn't even have the courage to eat them." After a year of philosophy at the University of Bucharest, young Steinberg decided that architecture was his field, Italy the country to study it in. He was seven years getting his degree because he spent so much time drawing...
...Steinberg mailed his first drawing in 1936 to an Italian magazine. Bertoldo, got $1.50 and much abuse from readers. Says he: "It was new, and they didn't like new things." But Steinberg continued working for Bertoldo for two years, then switched to Settebello and was also published in Harper's Bazaar, Brazil's Sombra, Argentine's Cascabel...