About: Jacob Burck

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Jacob Burck (née Yankel Boczkowsky, January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1982) was a Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit the Communist Party after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1936, deeply offended by political demands there to manipulate his work.

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  • Jacob Burck (née Yankel Boczkowsky, January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1982) was a Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit the Communist Party after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1936, deeply offended by political demands there to manipulate his work. Upon his return to the United States, Burck drew political cartoons for two large mainstream dailies, the St. Louis Post Dispatch and then, for 44 years, the Chicago Daily Times (later as the Chicago Sun-Times). Burck was awarded the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. (en)
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  • 1907-01-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Yankel Boczkowsky (en)
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  • 1982-05-11 (xsd:date)
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  • 1941 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1907-01-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Yankel Boczkowsky (en)
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  • Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland (en)
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  • Jacob Burck circa 1935 by wife Esther Kriger (en)
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  • 1982-05-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Chicago, United States (en)
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  • painting, sculpture, cartooning (en)
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  • American (en)
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  • If I Should Die Before I Wake (en)
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  • Esther Kriger (en)
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  • Proletarian Art (en)
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  • Jacob Burck (née Yankel Boczkowsky, January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1982) was a Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit the Communist Party after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1936, deeply offended by political demands there to manipulate his work. (en)
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  • Jacob Burck (en)
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