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Schiff, Friedrich, 1908-1968

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Personal name headingSchiff, Friedrich, 1908-1968
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Variant(s)Schiff (Artist), 1908-1968
Schiff, F. H. (Friedrich Hermann), 1908-1968
Schiff, Frederick, 1908-1968
Associated countryAustria
LocatedShanghai (China)
Birth date1908-11-06
Death date1968-03-23
Place of birthVienna (Austria)
Place of deathVienna (Austria)
AffiliationGraphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Vienna, Austria) Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien
Profession or occupationPainters Cartoonists
Found inKaminski, G. China gemalt, ©1983: t.p. (chinesische Zeitgeschichte in Bildern Friedrich Schiffs) p. 155, etc. (b. 1908; d. 1968)
Peking studies, 1934
BL S&C, 30 Aug. 2002 (line drawings by F.H. Schiff)
Eskelund, P. Squeezing through!, [1945]: title page (by [1 other] & Schiff)
Wikipedia (German version), viewed 29 March 2023: Friedrich Schiff (Austrian painter and draftsman, known for colorful caricatures of daily life in Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s; born November 6, 1908, in Vienna; studied at the Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien; received commissions as a caricaturist for Viennese newspapers, moved to Shanghai in 1930 and became the most famous painter in the city and opened a painting school, moved to Buenos Aires after the defeat of the republican government in 1947, and returned to Austria in 1954 and worked at an advertising agency; died March 23, 1968, in Vienna; he/him)
Union list of artist names online, viewed 29 March 2023 (preferred access point: Schiff, Frederick; Austrian painter; born 1908, Vienna; died Vienna)