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Peter Schrank?Swiss
Eroding academic freedom
2008
Signed
Framed
Ink on paper
25 x 36 cm
Guide Price £400

Lot 62

Mugabe
2008
Signed
Framed
Ink on paper
25 x 36 cm
Guide Price £400

Peter was born in St Gallen, Switzerland, on 23
September 1952. Educated at Basel Art School
from 1973 to 1977, he came to London in 1981.
His first cartoon was published in Time Out in
October 1981, and he subsequently worked for
The Sunday Business Post from 1989, Basler
Zeitung from 1993, and The Independent and
The Independent on Sunday from 1995. Peter is
often asked for the original cartoons by the
politicians who feature in them, but, as he
admitted in 1998, “I always feel that if the
subject wants a copy, then you haven’t been
doing your job properly”.
Peter has also contributed to New Statesman,
and Times Supplements, amongst other
publications, and from 1995 to 1996 was resident
commentator on the week’s cartoons for the
cable and satellite TV station European Business
News. He is currently political cartoonist for
The Independent on Sunday, Basler Zeitung
(Switzerland) and The Sunday Business Post
(Ireland), as well as being a regular contributor to
The Economist and The Independent.
In October 2000 he won the UN’s Ranan Lurie
Political Cartoon Award, for a cartoon contrasting
the coverage given to the young Cuban refugee
Elian Gonzal ez, with the unreported deaths of
children in the Ethiopian famine.
His influences are Saul Steinberg and Tomi
Ungerer, and his favoured medium is pen, brush
and ink “with a little bit of help from an airbrush”.

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Both cartoons were originally published in the THES.