Alfred Bendiner
Alfred Bendiner (23 July 1899 - 19 March 1964) was an American architect and artist, perhaps best known for his caricatures and cartoons. Biography He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Hungarian immigrants Armin and Rachel Hartmann Bendiner. He was the second-oldest of five children, and raised in a cultured Orthodox Jewish household. The family moved to Philadelphia when he was a boy, where he attended public schools, and graduated from Northeast High School in 1917. Bendiner won a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum School, but left after a year to enlist in the Students' Army Training Corps at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a sergeant and still stationed in Philadelphia when World War I ended in November 1918, but his service earned him automatic admission to Penn. He studied architecture there under Paul Philippe Cret, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1922. Architect Following graduation, he was employed as a draftsman in the office of Stewardson & Page for a couple years, before being hired by Cret. Bendiner worked on major Cret projects such as the Detroit Institute of Arts (1927), the Hartford County Courthouse (1929), and the Folger Shakespeare Library (1932). He also did