The Life and Artistic Evolution of William Pachner Born in Brtnice, Czech Republic, William Pachner was a painter who studied art in Vienna and worked as an illustrator in Prague. He moved to the United States in 1939, eventually making his home in Woodstock, New York, in 1945. During the war, his anti-fascist and anti-Nazi illustrations were featured in prominent national magazines. Following the news in 1945 that his family had been…
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