Oscar Berger Signed Sketch of Winston Churchill

AutographsOriginal Oscar Berger Signed Sketch of Winston Churchill

OSCAR BERGER, Famous 20th Century Jewish Artist, Caricaturist and Cartoonist.
This is an original Pen and Ink caricature by Oscar Berger of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England, Choice Extremely Fine. It measures 7.5" x 6.25" and is tipped to a larger piece of heavy paper. The work is Signed "Berger" in the lower right corner. Editing comments appear around on the heavy paper around the drawing. A most historic and wonderful impression of one of the most illustrious world figures of the 20th Century. A lovely piece and ready for framing and prominent display.

Oscar Berger (1901-1997) was born in Czechoslovakia. He studied art in Paris and Berlin and became a cartoonist in Prague. In Berlin, he secured an assignment with one of the largest Berlin daily newspapers and was one of the few journalists admitted to the 1923 Munich trial that followed Hitler's abortive putsch. Later, when Hitler came to power, Berger's cartoons angered the Nazi leader, and Berger was forced to leave the country. After spells in Budapest, Paris, and Geneva, where he attended numerous sessions at the League of Nations, he settled in London in 1935, where he worked for the Daily Telegraph. His work subsequently appeared in Life, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and Le Figaro, among numerous other publications. During the 1950s, Berger attended many sessions at the United Nations and illustrated virtually every important world leader to be seen there.