biografía de Rudolph DIRKS (1877-1968)

Lugar de nacimiento: Heide, Germany

Lugar de defunción: New York

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Painter, cartoonist

Exposiciones: Armory Show, 1913; Salons of Am.; WMAA, 1924; S.Indp.A., 1917-20, 1922; PAFA, 1925

Obra: Ogunquit Mus. of Amer. Art

Comentarios: At age seventeen Dirks sold cartoons to Judge and Life magazines. The Katzenjammer Kids" first appeared in 1897. During the Spanish-Am. War the strip was discontinued while Dirks served as a corporal in the army. Later a battle over publication rights of the strip ensued. Dirks was associated with many artists' movements, including the Ash Can School. Together with Walt Kuhn and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Dirks was one of the founders of the Ogunquit, Maine artists' colony. He was a friend of Ernest Hemingway. After his death his comic strip was continued by his son, John, under the title, "The Captain and the Kids."

Fuentes: Add'l info. courtesy of Selma Koss Holtz, Waban, Mass.; Brown, The Story of the Armory Show; Falk, Exh. Record Series.