Uriel Birnbaum
(13/11/1894, Austria - 9/12/1956, The Netherlands)
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Uriel Birnbaum was born in Vienna as the son of Nathan Birnbaum, the Jewish philosopher that introduced the word "zionism". Uriel Birnbaum was heavilly injured during World War I and remained invalid. From 1916, he was active as a illustrator, poster artist, painter and poet in Vienna.
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Between 1922 and 1924 he made a series of sequential paintings that told the story of Moses. Birnbaum made illustrations and wrote and illustrated comic pages for the children's magazine Der Regenbogen in 1925-26. After the "Anschluss" of Austria with Nazi-Germany, the Birnbaum family fled to The Netherlands. Uriel Birnbaum died in Amersfoort in 1956.
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