Alfred Bendiner

Alfred Bendiner was an American architect and artist, perhaps best known for his caricatures and cartoons.

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,: 316  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.

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