Birnbaum, Uriel ben Nathan (Natan)

Birth Name Birnbaum, Uriel ben Nathan (Natan) [1]
Birth Name בירנבאום, אוריאל בן נתן
Call Name אוריאל
Gender male
Age at Death 62 years, 26 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth November 13, 1894 Wien Vienna, Österreich  

 
Occupation     Uriel Birnbaum was an painter, caricaturist, writer and poet

Event Note

Uriel Birnbaum's art education reportedly consisted of only one month at a Berlin art school in 1913.

Event Note

Uriel Birnbaum illustrated a number of books, including the work of Edgar Alan Poe, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and his own Weltuntergang.

Event Note

Uriel Birnbaum and his brother, Menachem Birnbaum, published text and illustrations for the song, Chad Gadjo ('Had Gadya').
The storybook ending of the song was not realized in Menachem Birnbaum's own life. His dramatic and prophetic illustrations foretold the horror that was soon to unfold in Europe.

 
Residence 1939   Uriel Birnbaum fled from Vienna to Holland to escape the Nazis

 
Death December 9, 1956 Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederlanden  

 

Gallery

Turme am Meer, by Uriel Birnbaum

Turme am Meer, by Uriel Birnbaum
Leuchtturme, by Uriel Birnbaum

Leuchtturme, by Uriel Birnbaum

Source References

  1. Chad Gadjo

Pedigree

    1. Birnbaum, Uriel ben Nathan (Natan)