Word: czermanski
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Reporters leaped for their hats, photographers jumped for their cameras, Artist Zdzislaw Czermanski was routed from his hotel room. A fleet of honking taxis bore down on 57th Street. Reporters reached the galleries just as the grey-haired Polish politico-pianist departed in a pale blue swirl of burnt gasoline. The perspiring assemblage was left to admire the pictures...
...Zdzislaw Czermanski (pronounced "Zhishlaff Chairmanski"), a handsome, extremely self-possessed young man, was born in Lwow (pronounced "Wuff"), Poland, 35 years ago. His father & mother were mummers, but small Zdzislaw was only mildly interested in the theatre. He used to practice drawing caricatures by making faces at himself in a mirror. He learned much more about the human face by working for a time as a barber. During the War he enlisted in crop-headed Marshal Joseph Pilsudski's French-subsidized Polish Legion, was wounded, mentioned in despatches, thrice taken prisoner. In 1919 he gained his first fame...
...indictment of democratic government that is appalling, yet its poignant significance does not obscure the delightful quality of its humor." The other cartoons shown were street scenes of Paris, New York, London and that sport of all caricaturists from Tenniel to Ralph Barton, burlesques of famed paintings. Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because it relies so little on Distortion. He has a passion for detail. Drawing in a mixture of pencil, pastel and oil paint he builds an effective, hilarious whole by concentrating on a few minutiae: the wrinkles in Secretary Stimson's coats...
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