{{Short description|Painter, journalist and comic book artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} '''Kurt Caesar ''' (also known as '''Cesare Avai '''or '''Caesar Away''', true name '''Kurt Kaiser'''; 30 March 1906 – 12 July 1974) was a German-Italian painter, journalist and comic book artist.
He was born at Montigny-lès-Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, to German father. He studied Engineering in Leipzig, but later he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin; in the meantime he had a boxing career which led him to win a German title. In 1929 he became correspondent for a magazine in Zürich and collaborated for several German magazines; his journalist career led him to travel in Europe and Asia. After his marriage he moved to Italy, where he started to work at successful comics, such as Romano il Legionario, a popular nationalist character published in ''Il Vittorioso''. He also drew "Aeroporto Z" and "Will Sparrow" for ''Donald Duck and Other Adventures'' (''Paperino e altre avventure'').
During World War II Caesar was in Morocco, Libya and Spain, and, in 1941, again in Africa as interpreter for Erwin Rommel. Captured by the English, he returned to Italy after the end of the conflict. Here he continued to work at ''Il Vittorioso'' until, in 1952, he was called as cover artist for the science-fiction magazine ''I Romanzi di Urania'', for which he realized some 170 works until 1958, when he was replaced by Carlo Jacono. Caesar then moved to other popular magazine-book series for the same publisher, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, ''I Gialli'' and ''Segretissimo''. Other series he worked to include the unsuccessful Italian science fiction magazines ''Oltre il Cielo'' and ''Cronache del Futuro'', and the German ''Perry Rhodan''. He died by infarction in 1974 in his house at Bracciano.
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==External links== *[http://www.allworldwars.com/March-and-Fight-of-the-German-Africa-Corps-in-1941-Drawing-by-Kurt-Caesar.html March and fight of the German Africa Corps in 1941: Drawings by Kurt Caesar], more than 90 drawings, at AllWorldWars.Com
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