William Auerbach-Levy

William Auerbach-Levy (February 14, 1889 – June 29, 1964) was a Belarusian-born American artist of Jewish origin known for his paintings, etchings and caricatures.

[1] Auerbach-Levy was Jewish, was born in Brest in Belarus (at that time Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire), and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1894.

[1][2] He studied in New York City and Paris, and subsequently taught at the Educational Alliance Art School and the National Academy of Design.

Auerbach-Levy authored several books on the art of caricature, and his work in that vein, often featuring celebrities and theatrical personalities as his subjects, appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and American Heritage.

His wife, Florence Von Wien, who collaborated with him on one of his books, died in 1957.