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Show CARTOONIST'S RISE TO FAME Louis Raemekers Probably the Best Known of Artists Who Teach With the Pen. niMon nwny In nn obscure studio In n London suburb, with n price upon his hend (offered by Germnny) Louis Itnemekers has mndo tho whole world shudder with his cartoons of tho great war. A year and n half ngo ho was nn unknown un-known Dutch landscape nrtlst. Today To-day ho Is acclaimed the grentest master mas-ter of pen and pencil of tho nge; ho hns been feted by royalty, sought by Gennnn Bples nnd charged with endangering endan-gering Dutch neutrality. By tho usually usu-ally reserved nnd frequently skeptical Englishman ho Is frankly Idolized; and nil becnuso he hns pictured German Ger-man "kulture" nnd Its dire effects. Ills cartoons nrc now tho rage of tho hour In New York, where an exhibit exhib-it of originals Is being given for the benefit' of tho French Ited Cross. Louis Pnemokers wns born In Holland Hol-land of n Dutch fnther and n Germnn mother. When quite young ho studied painting nnd drawing In Holland and Brussels, nnd beforo the wnr begnii ho hnil established n local reputntlon ns a lnndscnpe nnd portrait painter. Some years ngo ho married a Dutch woman, nnd It Is now snid by those who know him that ho hns no Interest Inter-est outside his home, which Includes three ruddy children, except to go on with his work. Tho strong religious tendency which so often characterizes his work hns brought forth tho question ques-tion of what church the artist attends. HIr reply Is that ho belongs to none, but was brought up n Catholic nnd his wlfo a Protestant, and tho differences which In later llfu severed both from their early teaching cnuscd them to meet on common ground. |