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Schreiber was born in Brussels, Belgium on April 25, 1904. Growing up in Europe; badly war-torn from the First World War, was a dramatic influence in his subsequent career in art. Schreiber’s family of German ancestry confronted contempt from their Belgian neighbors. Later, the family returned to Germany, only to face similar contempt for their Belgian nationality. Schreiber studied art in Belgium and at the Academy of Fine Art in Berlin and in London. He traveled to Paris, Rome and Florence and between 1925 and 1928, worked for German newspapers as a free-lance illustrator. He immigrated to American in 1928. In 1934 Schreiber illustrated the Hans Fallada book “Little Man, What Now?” A novel about a young couple struggling to survive in Depression Era, Weimar Germany. In early 1935, he was the sketch artist for the trial of the convicted and later executed kidnapper of Charles Lindberg’s baby, Bruno Hauptmann. He was also a contributing artist to “Life” and “Fortune” magazines. By 1936, had taken a job with the U.S. Government’s Works Project Administration (WPA). That same year, he also illustrated a book: “Portraits and Self-Portraits,” published by the Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston. In 1939, his work took him to each of the nation’s 48 states. These extensive travels made Schreiber keenly astute to the life of the everyday American and his character. Schreiber’s travel paintings were exhibited at galleries nationwide as a “Panorama of America” as well as being featured at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. At the outset of WWII, Schreiber was commissioned by the U.S. Navy to create images to be printed as posters. Again, Schreiber faced contempt, this time from some of his colleagues for creating propaganda for the military. Schreiber’s response was that “art for art’s sake” should be shelved for the duration of the war. He continued to champion any medium, which he believed brought good art to the masses. Schreiber was a painter, illustrator, watercolorist, and lithographer as well as a teacher at the New School for Social Research, a school founded by a distinguished group of intellectuals who were fervent pacifists, in New York City. Schreiber died in 1977, in New York, New York. Contact
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