found: Wikipedia, viewed October 2, 2020(Bruno Caruso; influential Italian artist, graphic designer and writer who spent much of his adult life working in Rome; his work focused on the moral, political and ethical flaws of the 20th century; over the course of his career he created more than 25 collections of drawings, founded celebrated Sicilian cultural magazines, Sicilia and Ciclope, and illustrated works by Machiavelli, Kafka, Leonardo Sciascia, Giovanni Arpino and Giuseppe Ungaretti amongst many others; born in Palermo on August 8, 1927; he studied Law at the University of Palermo; in 1948 he took his first trip to Prague where, confronted by the Nazi atrocities of World War II, he completed his first official collection entitled Deutschland über alles; in 1953 he received a commission from the Sicilian Government to create Sicilia, a magazine series celebrating Sicilian art and culture; the early success of Sicilia caught the eye of Irene Brin and Gaspero del Corso, founders of the Galleria dell'Obelisco in Rome, and he became the director of the gallery's publishing arm; this association led to his first major solo show in 1953, followed by his first monograph in 1954; member of the prestigious Accademia di San Luca; in 1993 he was designated a commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and in 2001 he received the Gold Medal of Merit for Culture and Art from the President of Italy; he died on November 4, 2018 in Rome)