Rusins Kaufmanis: Husband. Soldier. Political cartoonist. Provocateur. Born March 27, 1925, in Riga, Latvia; died Sept. 20, 2019, in Victoria, of medically assisted death; age 94.
Courtesy of familyHusband. Soldier. Political cartoonist. Provocateur. Born March 27, 1925, in Riga, Latvia; died Sept. 20, 2019, in Victoria, of medically assisted death; age 94.
Talrits was killed during an Allied bombing of Danzig. Rusins survived it, only to end up in an American PoW camp and then on to a United Nations refugee camp. Remarkably, Rusins was allowed to draw sketches of his captors and fellow prisoners. He received notoriety from the guards for his talents and even some extra cigarettes.Rusins emigrated to Canada in 1947. He spent two years building a hydroelectric dam on the Ottawa River. There, too, he produced illustrations for the local newsletter.
Rusins adored his children. And to his delight, Anna loved art. They drew and painted together, while he spent winter evenings playing hockey with his son and trying to figure out, “What’s wrong with the Leafs?”Sardonic humour was a Rusins trademark and it surely helped him create the political drawings and cartoon captions that followed. While this humour could test Gundy’s patience, throughout their relationship, she always urged him to pursue an artistic career with vigour.
Over the years, he drew all the great Canadian political figures of the day – from John Diefenbaker to Brian Mulroney – and to Rusins’s delight, all asked for the original drawings, even if they had not been depicted in the most endearing light. Rusins always felt that a country whose leaders enjoy being lampooned was definitely a country in which he was grateful to call home.
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