About Hans Liska
Hans Liska (19 November 1907 – 26 December 1983) was an Austrian artist, painter, commercial artist and illustrator. == Biography == Liska was born on 19 November 1907 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He attended economic school and worked as a bureaucrat. A secondary job as a pianist helped him apply to University of Applied Arts Vienna. There he was a student of Berthold Löffler (a friend of Oskar Kokoschka). Liska then worked as a commercial artist in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and went to the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München in Munich as a student of Emil Preetorius and Walter Teutsch. Encouraged by Ullstein Verlag, Liska went to the Academy of Arts in Berlin on Steinplatz as a student of Ferdinand Spiegel. After World War II started, he was drafted as a soldier and an illustrator of the Wehrmacht Propaganda Troops. His drawings of various battlefields were published in many magazines, even in neutral countries.
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