Saul Steinberg, L'Ecriture Visuelle
Strasbourg, Musée Tomi Ungerer Centre International de l'Illustration

A highly cultured and well-traveled man, who loved music and spoke many languages, Saul Steinberg is a gem among moderns. Despite – or perhaps in light of – studying philosophy and literature in his native Romania and later architecture in Milan, Steinberg became a prolific and regularly published cartoonist.

He began with early contributions to Harper’s Bazaar and Life magazine, and then embarked on what blossomed to become a lifelong working relationship with The New Yorker, famed for its witty, single-frame cartoon-like illustrations. He additionally produced murals and extensive exhibitions around his great talent and broad mind.

He developed a strong individual style, nevertheless experimenting with a variety of graphic modes, and coined a visual vocabulary simply by sketching every day since his early years, “just like writing” he noted. This thesis leads the exhibition: Steinberg as author of an era.

November 27th 2009 through February 28th, 2010
Villa Greiner
2, avenue de la Marseillaise
Strasbourg
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