Rudolf Baranik (September 10, 1920 – March 6, 1998) was an artist, educator, and writer.
Born in Lithuania, he immigrated to the United States in 1938, when his family sent him to live with a relative in Chicago.
[1][2] His parents were secular Jewish socialists and were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War.
[2] Baranik was well known in the art world for his political advocacy,[3] and was one of the first artists to organize protests against the war in Vietnam.
Some of his best known works are the Napalm Elegies, a series of 30 antiwar paintings created between 1967 and 1974.