Jacques Ochs

Olympic medal record
Men's fencing
Representing  Belgium
	1912 Stockholm	Team epée

Jacques Ochs (18 February 1883 – 3 April 1971), was a Jewish Belgian artist and épée and foil fencer.

Ochs was Jewish, and was born in Nice, France. His family moved to Liège, Belgium, in 1893. Ochs studied art there at the Royal Academy of Art in Liège, graduating 1903. He won the Donnay Prize that year. Afterwards, he continued his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris until 1905.

Ochs volunteered for the army in World War I, and was seriously injured in an air attack.

In 1920 he became a professor of painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège, and in 1934 he was appointed Director of the city's Musée des Beaux Arts.

In addition to being a gifted artist, he was an Olympic fencing champion.

He was Champion of Belgium in fencing in 1912.

Ochs was a member of the Belgian fencing team at the 1912 Olympics, and won a gold medal in the team épée event (his teammates included Gaston Salmon). Ochs also competed in 3 individual events. In the individual foil and individual épée, he reached the 2nd round before being eliminated (he finished 39th in foil, and 29th in épée. Ochs's final event was individual sabre, but he was eliminated in the 1st round.

He was also a caricaturist, who published his sketches, illustrations, and caricatures in various newspapers including the French daily, Le Figaro, and a satirical magazine published in Brussels called Pourquoi Pas? (Why Not?). He at the same time worked at the newspapers "Newspaper of Liege", "Small Parisian", and "the Belgian Nation."

In early April 1938, Ochs, who was himself Jewish, depicted Hitler on the cover of Pourquoi Pas? with a swastika on his head and a sceptre in the form of a headless Jew. An artist with right-wing tendencies who envied Ochs' success informed on him, and Ochs was arrested at the academy in Liège on 17 November 1940.

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