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See also: Kahn

Bécan , Bernhard Kahn , or Bernard Bécan (1890, Stockholm (Sweden) - 1942, Paris) is a draftsman.

Raise of the Art schools which lead it to engraving and enamels. Engaged in the Foreign legion, he collaborates in a newspaper the hairy ones during the Great War, then becomes illustrator and poster artist of cinema and theater. Its sober style and incisive is worth to him to begin a fertile career of caricaturist and draftsman of press. It begins as draftsman in 1917 with the Carnet from the Week . It takes part in beginning of the year 20 with the newspapers the Laughter , the Large Puppet , the Duck connected, civic Progress , Work or the Newspaper . He is a portraitist and an lenient caricaturist. As a humorist, it exposes to the Salon of the parliamentary Draftsmen ; as a painter, lithographer, aquafortist, it exposes to the Salon of Independent the . It carries out covers of books, thus illustrating Louis Delluc, Maurice Dekobra, Georges Simenon, Henri Béraud, Paul Morand, Joseph Kessel, Louis Roubault and Rene Jeanne. In 1940, it draws the titles and the labels of “ Aujourd'hui ”. Jewish, it is persecuted by the Nazi S under the occupation. Particularly humiliated to carry yellow star, it is let die of hunger three years before the end of the Second world war.

Quotations

As for being malicious, in the caricature of theater, as some seek to be it, I really do not see the goal of it whereas in the political caricature that is included/understood extremely well. It is to much better seek to reach a psychological truth than to count the wrinkles (1938)

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