Hirschfeld, Al(bert) (1903–2003)

US graphic artist and caricaturist. He worked in New York for David Selznick in 1921 and Warner Brothers 1921–24, and established a studio in Paris 1924–25. He was the theatre correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune in Moscow 1927–28, and worked for the New York Times from 1929. A consummate traveller, he produced stylized and perceptive caricatures of theatre and public personalities. Beginning in 1945 he concealed his daughter's name, Nina, in almost every drawing.

Born in St Louis, Missouri, he studied at the Art Students League, New York City, in 1918.