Shmuel Katz (artist)

A Holocaust survivor and postwar immigrant to Mandate Palestine via the detention camps on Cyprus, he figured prominently in Israeli illustration and newspaper cartooning, widely exhibiting and publishing his drawings and paintings at home and abroad, for which he won numerous local and international awards.After the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, he was deported to a forced labor camp in Yugoslavia from which he escaped to Budapest where he was among the thousands of Jews hidden in the "Glass House" shelter operated by Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, until the arrival of the Soviet Red Army in mid-February 1945.In 1953–1954, he enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, where he studied lithography, copperplate etching, fresco, and music, and toured the lands of Western Europe.Especially popular are his illustrated classics of Israeli children's literature, such as Igeal Mozinsohn's Hasamba series and poet Leah Goldberg's Room for Rent,[2][3] whose cover art was used for a postage stamp.[4] Katz published editorial cartoons and illustrations in the Israeli dailies Al HaMishmar, and Maariv, the weekly kibbutz supplement of the mass-circulation Yedioth Aharonoth, as well as the Swiss satirical periodical, Nebelspalter.
ViennaNahariyaBudapest University of Technology and EconomicsHebrewcartoonistHolocaustpostwar immigrantMandate PalestineHungarian originAnschlussZionist youth movementHaNoar HaTzioniYugoslaviaBudapestGlass HouseCarl LutzSoviet Red ArmyHashomer HatzairAliyah Betdetention camp on CyprusFirst of MayKibbutz EilonKibbutz Ga'atonAl HaMishmarÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Artslithographycopperplate etchingfrescoNathan ShahamTehranJerusalemAnwar SadatPeace NowYad VashemSifriat PoalimKibbutz ArtziLeah GoldbergMaarivkibbutzYedioth AharonothNebelspalterDov KheninLeipzigTel AvivNachum GutmanGefen Publishing HouseThe Times of Israel