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  1. Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist.

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    • Hitler burning the League of Nations. The year the Nazis took power in Germany, they burnt the Reichstag in Berlin. It was this event in 1933, which was blamed on communists so that Hitler could restrict civil liberties and institute a mass arrest of Communist Party members, that Low refers to in this cartoon.
    • Stalin’s exclusion from the Munich Agreement. This Low cartoon depicts the Munich Agreement, in which Germany annexed parts of Czechoslovakia, creating what was called “Sudetenland” in September 1938.
    • Hitler as ‘conductor’ of European dictators. Here Low is representing Europe’s totalitarian leaders (Mussolini, Franco and Stalin) as a singing group with Hitler waving the baton.
    • Europe’s democratic vs. totalitarian leaders. Here we see Hitler and Mussolini in a motorcade surrounded by secret police and soldiers, while Britain’s Chamberlain and France’s Daladier hold the ‘Anglo-French’ talks, represented by a small umbrella.
  2. Mar 18, 1992 · David Low was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 7 April 1891, the son of David Brown Low, a Scottish-born journalist. He was educated at the Boys' High School, Christchurch, and was attracted to caricature through reading English comics such as Chips, Comic Cuts, Larks and Ally Sloper's Half Holiday.

  3. Sir David Low (born April 7, 1891, Dunedin, N.Z.—died September 19, 1963, London, England) was a New Zealand-born British journalist, one of the great modern political cartoonists and caricaturists. A self-taught artist, Low was already contributing cartoons to a local weekly paper at the age of 11.

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  4. Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist.

  5. Sep 3, 2023 · David Low, a prominent British cartoonist, gained worldwide recognition for his influential satirical cartoons, particularly during the lead-up to and throughout World War II. His incisive and often biting drawings lampooned political figures, including Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, making him a respected figure in editorial ...

  6. Born on 7 April 1891 in Dunedin, New Zealand, David Alexander Cecil Low was the most vigorous and outspoken political cartoonist since the Age of James Gillray.