Alexander A. Schomburg, born Alejandro Schomburg y Rosa (May 10, 1905[1] – April 7, 1998),[2] was a Puerto Rican commercial artist and comic-book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.
Biography
Alex Schomburg was born on May 10, 1905, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,[3] as the son of Guillermo Schomburg, a civil engineer and land surveyor of German ancestry and Jewish ancestry,[4][5] and Francisca Rosa. Alex Schomburg moved to New York City in 1917, where he joined his older brothers and attended public school. In 1923 he began work as a commercial artist with three of his brothers.[6]