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Saul Steinberg:
An Overview

Famed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums.

Steinberg crafted a rich and ever-evolving idiom that found full expression through these parallel yet integrated careers. Such many-leveled art, however, resists conventional critical categories. “I don’t quite belong to the art, cartoon or magazine world, so the art world doesn’t quite know where to place me,” he said. 1 He was a modernist without portfolio, constantly crossing boundaries into uncharted visual territory. In subject matter and styles, he made no distinction between high and low art, which he freely conflated in an oeuvre that is stylistically diverse yet consistent in depth and visual imagination.

 

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Saul Steinberg: A Biography

July 12, 2013
Fascinating biography, but even more fascinating as a chronology of books that Steinberg read and that influenced him (great reading suggestions here! if only everyone read so widely) and as the story of Steinberg's women--Ada, who supported him with sex and cash; Hedda, who supported him with maternal energy and cash; and Sigrid, who supported him as someone he could alternately control, fund, look down on, love, have sex with, and ultimately string along for years until her untimely death. It would be facile to blame Steinberg for his philandering and general horrendous treatment of women, both as colleagues and as lovers, but damn, son. I've been reading a lot of artists' biographies lately because I'm curious to know what the narrative of the woman in an artist's life story is (woman as artist, woman as woman-of-artist), and I found it disconcerting to read about how thoroughly Steinberg used the people around him.

Still, the man made a niche for himself as a particular kind of genius, a kind that maybe began and ended with him. I'm
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Saul Steinberg

Romanian-born American cartoonist (1914–1999)

This article is about the artist. For the financier, see Saul Steinberg (businessman).

Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914, Rm. Sărat, Romania – May 12, 1999, New York City)[1][2] was a Romanian-born American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".[3][2][4]

Biography

Steinberg was born in Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău County, Romania to a family of Jewish descent.[5] In 1932, he entered the University of Bucharest. In 1933, he enrolled at the Polytechnic University of Milan to study architecture; he received his degree in 1940. In 1936, he began contributing cartoons to the humor newspaper Bertoldo.[6][7][8][9] Two years later, the anti-Semitic racial laws promulgated by the Fascist government forced him to start seeking refuge in another country.

In 1941, he fled to the Dominican Republic, where he spent

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