David Low
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Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891–19 September 1963) drew political cartoons.
Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, this self-taught cartoonist worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911 and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and their policies. Such stinging depictions led to his work being banned in Italy and Germany.
In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that British political cartoons, particularly those of Low's, were damaging Anglo-German relations. After the war, Low is said to have found his name on the Nazi death list.
In England, Low worked initially at the London Star (1919–27), before joining the Evening Standard (1927–50). Later he moved to the Daily Herald (1950–53), and finally the Manchester Guardian (from 1953).
David Low received a knighthood in 1962 and died in London in 1963.
A generation of New Zealand school students were taught the origins of the Second World War in textbooks illustrated with Low's cartoons and were told that Hitler had a personal hatred of the cartoonist.