 Fritz Alfred BEHRENDT DE TELEGRAAF Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS | |
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Fritz Alfred Behrendt's career as a cartoonist began after a tumultous period including membership in a Dutch resistance movement which led to imprisonment by the SS, a stint in the Dutch army, and imprisonment by the East Berlin State Security Service which accused him of Titoism. After Behrendt's release, he returned to Amsterdam and began his cartooning career. Besides his publication in journals throughout the world, he works for Amnesty International, the Red Cross environmental protection organizations, and Dutch television. He has won many prizes and been exhibited worldwide. Behrendt has been International Consultant of the Study Centre for Cartoons and Caricatures of the University of Canterbury in Kent, England, Consul of the Dutch Militant Museum in Delft, and prime mover behind the "Galerie Journalistischer Zeichner" in the Cultutral Center in Amsterdam. | |
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