1. Manuel Rosenberg was an American illustrator, cartoonist, writer, lecturer, teacher, editor, and publisher.
15 Facts About Manuel Rosenberg
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Manuel Rosenberg was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 29,1897, to Jewish immigrant parents.
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Manuel Rosenberg's father, Benjamin Rosenberg, was a cap maker born in Minsk and his mother, Celia Jasin Rosenberg, was born in Brest to parents born in Breslau.
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Manuel Rosenberg's two siblings, Simon and Jessie Manuel Rosenberg Tyroler, were both born in Cincinnati before Benjamin left the family and moved to California.
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Manuel Rosenberg sold newspapers to earn money to attend the Cincinnati Art Academy where he studied portraiture with Duveneck and landscapes with Meakin.
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Manuel Rosenberg attended the National Academy of Design in New York City, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and studied in Paris.
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Manuel Rosenberg enlisted in the navy on June 5,1918, and became the official cartoonist of the United States aviation training department in Great Lakes, Illinois.
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Manuel Rosenberg had audiences with most of the kings, popes, and dictators of Europe.
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Manuel Rosenberg sketched and interviewed Galli-Curci, Lindbergh, Grand Duke Alexander, Llyod George, Queen Maria of Romania, and Lord Rothschild.
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Manuel Rosenberg sketched archeologist Howard Carter in 1924 after he discovered King Tut's Tomb.
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Manuel Rosenberg knew and sketched many US presidents during his career including Calvin Coolidge, Warren G Harding and Herbert Hoover.
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In 1928, Manuel Rosenberg was involved in a second career as the founder and publisher of The Advertiser and Markets of America, a well-known monthly publication devoted to the interests in national advertising in the US and Canada.
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Manuel Rosenberg met Lydie Joyce Bloch when she was an assistant at his publication Markets of America.
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Manuel Rosenberg died in 1967, aged 70, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, after a long battle with cancer.
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Manuel Rosenberg was the author of four books on art and art instructions, used for reference in many art schools and libraries throughout the world.