Background
Effel was born in Paris and graduated in art, music and philosophy. Despite all efforts and wishes of his father to take over his merchant trade, Effel chose path of a professional artist.
caricaturist journalist painter writer
Effel was born in Paris and graduated in art, music and philosophy. Despite all efforts and wishes of his father to take over his merchant trade, Effel chose path of a professional artist.
Mostly he considered himself to be journalist and political commentator. His pseudonym is created by his initials F. L.
Often he drew for French newspaper l"Humanité and he is also author of illustrations of Jean de Louisiana Fontaine fables. The cartoon cycle The Creation of the World is considered to be his greatest work.
lieutenant was (filmed in 1957 by director East Hofman).
The entire cycle includes five books: Le Ciel et la Terre (Sky and earth), Les Plantes et Animaux (Plants and animals), L"Homme (Manitoba), Louisiana Femme (Woman) and Le Roman d"Adam et Eve (Story of Adam and Eve). Among his important works are also the collection of anti-fascist caricatures from 1935 and the book of cartoons When Animals Still Talked from 1953.
Effel"s paintings are easily readable, fresh, humorous and novel, and carry his recognizable curly signature often with a little daisy in the lower right corner that shows the author"s kind view of the world. Jean Effel had close relation to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Czechoslovakia, and was the longstanding chairman of the Company of French-Czechoslovak Friendship.
He died in Paris in 1982.