{geni:about_me} [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Trier wikipedia] - '''Walter Trier''', an illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Kästner Erich Kästner] and the covers of the magazine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_(magazine) Lilliput]. '''Trier'''s work either ignored or made light of the nightmares of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism Nazism] and war through which he lived; he preferred delight and fantasy. '''Trier''' was born to a middle class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. In 1905, '''Trier''' entered the Industrial School of Fine and Applied Arts; he later moved to the Prague Academy. In 1906, he entered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Fine_Arts,_Munich Royal Academy], Munich, where he studied under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stuck Franz Stuck] and Erwin Knirr. In 1910, '''Trier''' moved to Berlin where he spent most of his career. '''Trier''' married '''Helene Mathews''' in 1913; a daughter, '''Margaret''', was born a year later. An anti-fascist, '''Trier'''s cartoons were bitterly opposed by the Nazis. In 1936 he emigrated to London. During the Second World War, '''Trier''' helped the Ministry of Information produce anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda. He and his wife became British citizens in 1947, the same year that they moved to Canada to be near their daughter, who had moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto Toronto] with her husband in the late thirties..