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Show CARTOONIST'S RISE TO FAME Louis Raemekers Probably the Best Known of Artists Who Teach With the Pen. Hulclen away in nn obscure studio, in n London suburb, with a price upon his head (offered by Germany) Louis Raemekers has made the whole world shudder with his cartoons of the great war. A year and a half ago he was an unknown un-known Dutch landscape artist. Today To-day he is acclaimed the greatest master mas-ter of pen and pencil of the age ; he has been feted by royalty, sought by-German by-German spies and charged with endangering endan-gering Dutch neutrality. By the usually usu-ally reserved and frequently skeptical Englishman he is frankly Idolized-; and all because he has pictured German Ger-man "kulture" and its dire effects. His cartoons are now the rage of the hour in New York, where an exhibit exhib-it of originals Is being given for the benefit of the French Red Cross. Louis Raemekers was bom In Holland Hol-land of a Dutch father and a German mother. When quite young he studied painting and drawing in Holland and Brussels, and before the war began he had established a local reputation as a landscape and portrait painter-. Some years ago he married a Dutch woman, and It is now said by those who know him that he has no interest inter-est outside his home,, which Includes three ruddy children, except to go on I with his work. The strong religious tendency which so often characterizes his work has brought forth the question ques-tion of what church the artist attends. His reply is that he belongs to none, i but was brought up a Catholic and his wife a Protestant, and the differences which in later life severed both from their early teaching caused them to meet on common ground. |