| General info : | | Ed Arno (born Arnold Edelstein July 17, 1916 in Czernowitz, in an Austro-Hungarian area of Romania – died May 27, 2008, Long Island, New York, USA (aged 92)) was an Austrian-American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, contributing to The New Yorker from 1969 to 2001.
He was born in Innsbruck, Austria, before moving to the United States.
e spent his childhood in Cernauti, a farmer's town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied at the Paul Colin Art School in Paris, France, between 1935 and 1937. In France, he published his first caricatures under the pseudonym Ed. Arno. He returned to Cernauti in 1939, where he resumed his activities as an illustrator and caricaturist.
Edelstein and his family spent four years in the Transnistria concentration camp. He was liberated by the Russian army in August 1944. He settled in Bucharest, where he worked as art director and illustrator for several publications of the Romanian Communist Party. He was an artist with the children's magazine Licurici between 1947 and 1952, making illustrations, covers and comics like 'Gica si Tica, asi Sportivi' and 'Micii Gradinari'. He also made a comic based on 'Gulliver's Travels' for Luminita between 1958 and 1960.
He became known for his caricatures in satirical magazines like Urzica and Krokodil, the latter from Russia. Jewish activists were banned from the party in the late 1950s, and Arno decided to emigrate in 1966. After several months in Italy, Edelstein and his wife finally settled in New York.
In a twist of fate, The New Yorker initially resisted his attempts to become a contributor because his last name, by coincidence, was identical to that of the great New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno, who was originally named Curtis Arnoux Peters. (Like that famous Arno’s, Ed Arno’s name was a pseudonym.)
Peter Arno’s death in 1968 cleared the way for Arno II’s entry into the magazine’s pages in September 1969.
He made about 230 drawings for The New Yorker between 1969 and 2001. His cartoons were also published in The New York times, Look, Drix, Licurici, Luminita, Saturday Review, Saturday Evening Post, Harvard Business Review and Cosmopolitan.
His books The Magic Fish and The Gingerbread Man were set to music by Arthur Rubinstein.
In 1998, he published a collection of his work, Ed Arno’s Most Wanted.
He passed away in his apartment on Long Island in May 2008. | |
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