biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1837–94)
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| biography:
| Caricaturist and publisher, born in Kieligenstadt, Austria. After studying art in Vienna, he joined his father in the USA (1867), where he soon founded a German-language journal of humour, Die Vehme. In 1870 he founded Puck, also printed in German; it was revived in New York in 1877 in an English-language version. His intricate cartoons lampooned Tammany politicians, Prohibition, and other issues of the day, and he also created several cartoon icons, notably a bewhiskered Uncle Sam. |
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