Walter Trier

wikipedia - Walter Trier, an illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kästner and the covers of the magazine Lilliput. Triers work either ignored or made light of the nightmares of Nazism and war through which he lived; he preferred delight and fantasy. Trier was born to a middle class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. In 1905, Trier entered the Industrial School of Fine and Applied Arts; he later moved to the Prague Academy. In 1906, he entered the Royal Academy, Munich, where he studied under Franz Stuck and Erwin Knirr. In 1910, Trier moved to Berlin where he spent most of his career. Trier married Helene Mathews in 1913; a daughter, Margaret, was born a year later. An anti-fascist, Triers cartoons were bitterly opposed by the Nazis. In 1936 he emigrated to London. During the Second World War, Trier helped the Ministry of Information produce anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda. He and his wife became British citizens in 1947, the same year that they moved to Canada to be near their daughter, who had moved to Toronto with her husband in the late thirties..