Political cartoonist and artist, born in Roermond, SE Netherlands. He started painting landscapes and portraits, then in 1907 his first political cartoons appeared. He joined the Telegraaf in 1909, and attained worldwide fame by 1915 with his striking anti-German war cartoons.
Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 in Roermond - July 26, 1956 in Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter and cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance.
He was born in Roermond, Netherlands in 1869 as the son of an ethnically German newspaper editor. His graphic cartoons depicted the rule of the German military in Belgium, portrayed the Germans as barbarians and Kaiser Wilhelm II as an ally of Satan. The German government offered a reward of 12,000 guilders for Raemaekers, dead or alive. The German government forced the Dutch government to place Raemaekers on trial for 'endangering Dutch neutrality', but a jury acquitted him.
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