Beck, Willy
BECK, WILLY
BECK, WILLY (1844–1886), Hungarian painter and cartoonist. He exhibited portraits and scenes from daily-life at the Budapest salon. He later earned his living by publishing the Zeitgeist, a humorous periodical in German, contributing all the prose and cartoons. In 1849 he settled in Vienna and edited the Charivari, a political and satirical journal, until the police suspended publication. He then returned to Hungary.
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