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Who is Hans Liska?

Hans Liska (19 November 1907 in Vienna, Austria – 26 December 1983 in Wertheim am Main, Germany) was an Austrian artist, painter, commercial artist and illustrator. Liska attended economic school and worked as a bureaucrat. A secondary job as a pianist helped him apply to University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Where did Liska live after WW2?

After the end of the war, Liska remained in Germany. In 1945 his Skizzenbuch aus dem Kriege, originally published in 1944 by Buhrbanck in Berlin in 1944, and all of its translations, was placed on the "proscription list of rejected literature" as number 17549. In 1948 Liska married Elisabeth (née Schmid, born 1922) in Scheßlitz near Bamberg.

How many sketch books did Hans Liska make?

Two of his sketch books in 1942 ( Junkers) and 1944 (Hans Liska) are valuable collectibles today. From 1933 to 1944, he was an illustrator for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, particularly for the special issue for the 1936 Summer Olympics, and the propaganda magazine Signal.

Where did Liska go to school?

Liska attended economic school and worked as a bureaucrat. A secondary job as a pianist helped him apply to University of Applied Arts Vienna. There he was a student of Berthold Löffler (a friend of Oskar Kokoschka ).