William Pachner (April 7, 1915 – November 17, 2017) was a Czech-born American painter who made his home in Woodstock, New York from 1945. He studied art in Vienna and worked as an illustrator in Prague before coming to the United States in 1939 on the eve of World War II. During the war, his anti-fascist anti-Nazi illustrations appeared in the foremost national magazines. When he learned in 1945 that all members of his family had been exterminated by the Germans, he quit his commercial career and resolved never again to do a commercial job, but to paint what he felt.
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7 April 1915 Brtnice, Czech Republic
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Died |
17 November 2017 (aged 102) Woodstock, New York, U.S.
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Zodiac | Aries |
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