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Now streaming on
PBS American Masters
and the PBS App
ABOUT ART SPIEGELMAN
FILM FORUM, NYC
Opens February 21
ART SPIEGELMAN is one of the world’s most admired and beloved comic
artists, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust narrative, Maus.
Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman began studying cartooning in high
school and drawing professionally at age sixteen. He studied art and
philosophy at Harpur College before joining the underground comics
movement in the 1960s. Spiegelman taught history and the aesthetics of
comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1979 to 1986, and in
1980 he founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with
his wife, Françoise Mouly. Honors Spiegelman has received include induction
into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame and the Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame. In
2005, he was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
He was made an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007, and in
2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International
Comics Festival. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, and in 2018 he became the first comic artist to receive the
Edward MacDowell Medal. His art has been exhibited at museums
throughout the world, including the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Ludwig
Museum in Cologne, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Jewish Museum in New
York City, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
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