Word: behrendt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practiced by Kelen and his collaborator Alois Derso, the art of caricature survives today mainly in the work of newspaper editorial cartoonists, the best of whom-Bill Mauldin, Herblock, Paul Conrad of the Denver Post, Fritz Behrendt of Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad-can transcend mere exaggeration to reach with a few lines the essence of a subject's character. "It is not simply a matter of drawing a big nose bigger and a floppy ear floppier," Kelen writes. "It involves an evaluation of the inner man through his outward features. A caricature is an opinion." For 40 years...
...Behrendt's cartoon was memorable-but in fact, the eagle, the lion, the lamb and the bear were far from harmonizing about peace on earth. And it was a gloomy day when President John Kennedy arrived in Bermuda last week for his fourth series of somber talks this year with Britain's Harold Macmillan. Sitting in Hamilton's pale pink Government House. Kennedy and Macmillan conversed for as long as five hours at a stretch-with only a few minutes out for tea-but. inevitably, they were able to produce little in the way of hard solutions...
...Behrendt's special skill lies in his capacity to unravel the most labyrinthine international maze, and to explain the most convoluted international personality, with a few deft lines. His Castro is a bellower whose gaping mouth reveals a hammer-and-sickle tongue. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is a perspiring sphinx; West Germany's tough old Chancellor Adenauer, an uncrackable walnut. As depicted by Behrendt, France's De Gaulle wears spectacles that reflect the Gaullist cosmos: a double image of Charles de Gaulle himself...
Flirtation & Favor. Berlin-born Fritz Behrendt's caricaturing skill, as well as his hostility to the Reds, had improbable origins. His father wanted him to be a pastry cook. But Behrendt boned up instead on Upton Sinclair and Karl Marx, spent part of his youth flirting with the left. He worked on road-building projects for Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, took a free course at a Zagreb art school, moved to East Berlin on a job illustrating books for prospective young Communists. But after Stalin denounced Titoism, Behrendt became disillusioned...
...Behrendt's wallop can no longer be measured by its impact in Amsterdam. Without any help from his paper, he has managed to syndicate himself on a global scale. His work appears regularly in 40 papers from West Germany to Japan, including two in New York (the Herald Tribune and the Sunday Times), and obviously will soon spread farther...