25 Facts About Daniel Brustlein

Daniel Brustlein was an Alsatian-born American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and author of children's books.

Daniel Brustlein is best known for the cartoons and cover art he contributed to The New Yorker magazine under the pen name "Alain" from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Daniel Brustlein was born on September 11,1904, in the Alsatian town of Mulhouse.

In 1924, at the urging of one of his teachers, Daniel Brustlein moved to Paris where he found work as an illustrator while continuing his art studies.

In 1927 Daniel Brustlein moved to New York City on the advice of Jean Coquillot, a colleague and fellow student.

Daniel Brustlein signed this early work with the name "Alain" and subsequently used that pen name for the rest of his career as illustrator and cartoonist.

The issue of The New Yorker for November 9,1935, contained Daniel Brustlein's first cover art.

Daniel Brustlein was a painter and book illustrator as well as a magazine illustrator and cartoonist.

In 1952 he was given his first solo show when "Peintures de Alain Daniel Brustlein" opened at Galerie Jeanne Bucher in Paris.

Daniel Brustlein's work appeared in group exhibitions at Stable Gallery in New York and at the Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne.

In 1960 Daniel Brustlein received a purchase award at the 5th International Hallmark invitational exhibition held at Wildenstein Gallery in New York.

In everything that Daniel Brustlein paints there is a sensibility of great refinement.

Van Norman said Daniel Brustlein employed simple text and clear pictures to produce a fascinating introduction to the subject.

In 1968 Daniel Brustlein wrote and illustrated a book called One, Two, Three, Going to Sea.

Daniel Brustlein was born in the town of Mulhouse close to the borders of Germany, France, and Switzerland.

In 1940 Daniel Brustlein told a census taker that he had left school after the eighth grade.

Daniel Brustlein emigrated to New York in 1927 and in 1933 became a US citizen.

The 1940 Census shows that Daniel Brustlein was then living in a New York apartment with his mother, Louise.

Louise Daniel Brustlein's age is given as 63 and her presumptive year of birth is thus 1877.

Daniel Brustlein would have been about 26 when Brustlein was born.

Sometime on or before December 1938 Daniel Brustlein met his future wife, Janice Biala, who was then living with Ford Madox Ford.

The acquaintance wrote that Daniel Brustlein, whom she knew only as "Alain," was an Alsatian with red hair.

That year de Kooning insisted that Daniel Brustlein join the members-only club that he and other artists of the New York School had founded to discuss topics related to the art movement that would become known as abstract expressionism.

Daniel Brustlein was 92 years old when he died on July 14,1996.

Daniel Brustlein's wife survived him by four years, dying at the age of 97 on September 24,2000.