Uriel Birnbaum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Uriel Birnbaum

artist

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1894

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1956

Profession: writer, poet, author, illustrator, painter, caricaturist

Nationality: Austria, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Uriel Birnbaum (November 13, 1894, in Vienna - December 9, 1956, in Amersfoort, Netherlands) was an Austrian painter, caricaturist, writer and poet. Birnbaum was the youngest son of Nathan Birnbaum, a Jewish philosopher, and Rosa Korngut.
Reportedly, his art education consisted of only one month at a Berlin art school in 1913.
He was severely injured during World War I.
He illustrated a number of books, including works of Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (Alice im Spiegelglass, Vienna, 1923), and his own Weltuntergang (1921).