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Jean Veber
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Born February 13, 1868 - Paris; Died November 28, 1928 -Paris
Veber studied with Maillol and then at l'école des Beaux-Arts. Veber showed his work at the Salon from 1890 to 1897, when his caricature of Bismarck as a butcher was withdrawn due to protests, after which he joined the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, becoming its secretary in 1901. In that year he greeted the coronation of Edward VII with an image of his face on the bare bottom of a leering Brittania.
Trained as a painter, he became best known as a caricaturist after his brother, Pierre Veber, asked him to join his journal, Gil Blas. Though never completely successful (except for an occasional succes de scandale) with his enormous allegorical and fantastic paintings and tapestry designs, Veber was an important and respected draftsman, often illustrating satiricalcles written by his brother Pierre. He worked for Gil Bias illustre, Le Journal, L'Illustration and L’Assiette au Beurre, and Le Rire.
Veber’s anti-german illustrations for Le Rire in 1898 in which he did a notorious caricature lampooning the German Kaiser's ambitions in Palestine would later resurface during WW1 as British anti-french propaganda… read on.
Veber contributed a particularly haunting issue to L’Assiette Au Beurre for no. 26 September 28, 1901 concerning the "reconcentration camps" in which the British were detaining Transvaal civilians in very desperate moments of the Boer War (during which most Continental European sympathies were with Kruger). The images for the issue are today even more jarring and dismaying for present-day viewers than they were when the British first invented the concentration camp. This issue of L'Assiette was temporarily banned by the French government, which was busily negotiating a defensive alliance with Britain, but eventually it ran into several editions. During the First World War, German planes dropped reprints of this issue over British trenches in France, as if to say "See what allies you have!" The British retorted with copies of Veber's 1898 anti-German issue of Le Rire.
Veber's nationalistic drawings soon made him one of France's most popular political cartoonists. He became one of the great lithographers of his time, receiving the Légion d'honneur in 1907.
Bibliography:
Appelbaum, Stanley: French Satirical Drawings from L'Assiette au Beurre. Dover, 1978.
E. Benezit : Dictionnaire des Peintres, Grund, Paris, 1999.
P. Veber et L. Lacroix : L'œuvre lithographie de Jean Veber, Floury, Paris, 1931.
Bailly-Herzberg « Dictionnaire De L'estampe En France 1830 – 1950 » Paris, 1985.
Lacroix L., Veber P., L'Œuvre lithographie de Jean Veber, Paris, 1931.
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