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{{short description|Estonian-American cartoonist (1914–2005)}}{{Infobox person
| name               = Edmund Siegfried Valtman
| birth_date         = May 31, 1914
| birth_place        = [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]]
| death_date         = January 12, 2005 (aged 91)
| death_place        = [[Bloomfield, Connecticut]]
| occupation         = Cartoonist
| known_for          = Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1962)
}}
[[File:Edmund S. Valtman, What you need is a revolution like mine ppmsca.02969.jpg|thumb|Valtman's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon, August 1961]]
[[File:Leonid Brezhnev by Edmund S. Valtan ppmsc.07952.jpg|thumb|Caricature of [[Leonid Brezhnev]] by Valtman, 1968]]
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'''Edmund Siegfried Valtman''' (May 31, 1914 – January 12, 2005) was an [[Estonia]]n and [[United States|American]] editorial [[cartoonist]] and the winner of the 1962 [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning]].

== Early life ==
Born in [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]] to Juhan and Elisabeth (née Kukk) Valtman,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Finholm |first1=Valerie |title=Edmund Valtman, 90; Pulitzer-Winning Editorial Cartoonist |url=https://legacy.com/us/obituaries/hartfordcourant/name/edmund-valtman-obituary?id=26933957|work=[[Hartford Courant]]|date=January 19, 2005|access-date=November 17, 2023 |via=[[legacy.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> Edmund sold his first cartoons when he was 15<ref name="Green">{{cite news |last1=Green |first1=Rick |title=Book Looks Back at Long Career of Pulitzer Prize–Winning Artist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-edmund-s-valtman-1914/123190673/ |work=Hartford Courant |date=March 9, 1992 |location=Hartford, CT |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-edmund-s-valtman-1914/123190673/ 89], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-edmund-s-valtman-1914/123190812/ 95] |access-date=April 20, 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> to the children's magazine ''Laste Rõõm''. He also created his first cartoon at 15. He had seen his older brother draw as well as his father make cakes and cookies with designs on them (Juhan was a baker).<ref>{{cite news|title=Valtman's Career the Subject of Retrospective|url=https://courant.com/1992/03/09/valtmans-career-the-subject-of-retrospective|date=August 25, 2021|access-date=November 17, 2024|newspaper=Hartford Courant}}</ref> 

Edmund Valtman worked as an editorial cartoonist for the newspapers ''Eesti Sõna'' and ''Maa Sõna'' under the moniker ''Vallot''<ref name="Green"/> and studied at the [[Tallinn Art and Applied Art School]]. When the [[USSR]] [[Occupation of the Baltic states|reoccupied Estonia]] in 1944, he and his wife, Helmi (who was Estonian) fled the country with [[Tallinn offensive|retreating Nazi troops]] and then spent the next four years in [[Displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe|displaced persons camps]] in [[Germany]] including one in [[Geislingen, Zollernalbkreis|Geislingen]]. The camps were still under the control of [[Allied-occupied Germany|Allied occupation forces]]. They emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1959,<ref name="Finholm">{{cite news |last1=Finholm |first1=Valerie |title=Edmund Valtman, 90; Pulitzer-Winning Editorial Cartoonist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-edmund-s-valtman/123135765/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=January 16, 2005 |location=Los Angeles, CA |page=45 |access-date=April 19, 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> first to [[Little Silver, New Jersey|Little Silver]] east of [[Red Bank, New Jersey]] and then to [[Hartford, Connecticut]].<ref name="Green"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Fischer |first=Heinz Dietrich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3f26gYhGEY4C&pg=PA157 |title=Editorial Cartoon Awards, 1922-1997: From Rollin Kirby and Edmund Duffy to Herbert Block and Paul Conrad |date=1999 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-598-30183-4 |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Valtman was a cartoonist for ''[[The Hartford Times]]'' from 1951 until his retirement in 1975 and Helmi began working in insurance at the same time. He was noted for his [[caricature]]s of [[Cold War]]–era [[communist]] leaders including [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and [[Leonid Brezhnev]]. He won the Pulitzer Prize for a August 31, 1961 cartoon showing [[Fidel Castro]] leading a shackled, beaten-down man representing [[Cuba]] and advising [[Brazil]] "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine!"<ref name="Finholm" /><ref>Charles, Holden, PhD. "[http://www.teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24459 Cold War Wrestling Match]." [http://www.teachinghistory.org Teachinghistory.org]. Accessed 3 July 2011.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Edmund Valtman: The Cartoonist Who Came in From the Cold (Library of Congress - Swann Foundation) |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/valtman/ |access-date=2023-05-25 |website=www.loc.gov}}</ref>

Valtman died in a retirement home in [[Bloomfield, Connecticut]].<ref name="Finholm"/>

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1914 births]]
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[[Category:Artists from Tallinn]]
[[Category:20th-century Estonian male artists]]
[[Category:20th-century Estonian artists]]
[[Category:Estonian cartoonists]]
[[Category:Estonian anti-communists]]
[[Category:People from the Governorate of Estonia]]
[[Category:American editorial cartoonists]]
[[Category:American anti-communists]]
[[Category:Estonian emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:Estonian World War II refugees]]
[[Category:Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners]]


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