Saul steinberg biography

Saul Steinberg (Romanian-American, )

Saul Steinberg fryst vatten best known for his six decades of witty New Yorker illustrations, but he was also involved with formgivning wallpaper, fabrics, public murals, stage sets, and advertisements. His collages, prints, paintings, and sculptures are steeped in Modernist styles and influences and endowed with a fantastical and absurdist streak. 
Steinberg was born to Russian Jews in Romania, but was a New York resident for 57 years. In , he enrolled at the Regio Politecnico, the architecture school of the University of Milan, where he started drawing cartoons and fostered a lifelong relationship with Aldo Buzzi who would become a filmmaker. Fleeing Italy in , he became known for walking the streets of his adopted city with a freshness of vision; everything in the city captured his interest, including the billboards, signs, storefronts, vehicles, graffiti, and architectural details. Drawing upon his own daily life an

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Saul Steinberg:
An Overview

Famed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age, Saul Steinberg () had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums.

Steinberg crafted a rich and ever-evolving idiom that found full expression through these parallel yet integrated careers. Such many-leveled art, however, resists conventional critical categories. “I don’t quite belong to the art, cartoon or magazine world, so the art world doesn’t quite know where to place me,” he said. ¹ He was a modernist without portfolio, constantly crossing boundaries into uncharted visual territory. In subject matter and styles, he made no distinction between high and low art, which he freely conflated in an oeuvre that is stylistically diverse yet con

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Saul Steinberg

Romanian-born American cartoonist (–)

This article is about the artist. For the financier, see Saul Steinberg (businessman).

Saul Steinberg (June 15, , Rm. Sărat, Romania&#;– May 12, , New York City)^[1][2] was a Romanian-born American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".^[3][2][4]

Biography

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Steinberg was born in Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău County, Romania to a family of Jewish descent.^[5] In , he entered the University of Bucharest. In , he enrolled at the Polytechnic University of Milan to study architecture; he received his degree in In , he began contributing cartoons to the humor newspaper Bertoldo.^[6][7][8][9] Two years later, the anti-Semitic racial laws promulgated by the Fascist government forced him to start seeking refuge in another country