Illustrationintheworld

  He was born in Michelstadt-im-Odenwald, then in the Grand Duchy of Hesse of the German Empire. In his early years, he studied under Rudolf Koch at Offenbach School of Art and Design, and developed skills in woodcuts. In 1920, he began studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach am Main. Koch and Kredel collaborated on A Book of Signs (1923) and The Book of Flowers (1930). Following Koch's death in 1934, Kredel moved to Frankfurt, but in 1938, he fled Germany for political reasons with help from Melbert Cary.

  James Cecil Hatlo (September 1, 1897 – December 1, 1963), better known as Jimmy Hatlo, was an American cartoonist who in 1929 created the long-running comic strip and gag panel They'll Do It Every Time, which he wrote and drew until his death in 1963. Hatlo's other strip, Little Iodine, was adapted into a feature-length movie in 1946. In an opinion piece for the July 22, 2013, edition of The Wall Street Journal, "A Tip of the Hat to Social Media's Granddad", veteran journalist Bob Greene characterized Hatlo's daily cartoons, which credited readers who contributed the ideas, as a forerunner of Facebook and Twitter. Greene wrote: "Hatlo's genius was to realize, before there was any such thing as an Internet or Facebook or Twitter, that people in every corner of the country were brimming with seemingly small observations about mundane yet captivating matters, yet lacked a way to tell anyone outside their own circles of friends about it. Hatlo also un

  Born in Kiev in 1897, Nathalie Parain studied at the Vkhutemas in Moscow. In the 1920s she moved to Paris with her husband, the philosopher Brice Parain. Inspired by constructivist theories, poster design and education, she started dedicating herself to illustration for children. In 1930 he illustrated Mon chat (My cat) written by André Beucler and published by Gallimard. Then she met the publisher and pedagogue Paul Faucher who offered her to illustrate for Les albums du Père Castor. Today Nathalie Parain is considered one of the major artists. It still has a great influence on contemporary children's picture books. It is the first definitive monograph on Nathalie Parain. It brings together illustrations, excerpts from books and unpublished material. Interviews with her daughter and texts written by children's literature experts offer insightful perspectives on her work.

  Heinrich Vogeler (December 12, 1872 – June 14, 1942) was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was born in Bremen, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1890–95. His artistic studies during this period included visits to Belgium and Italy. Vogeler was a central member of the original artist colony in Worpswede, which he joined in 1894. In 1895 Vogeler bought a cottage there and planted many birch trees around it, which gave the house its new name: Barkenhoff (Low German for Birkenhof, or "birch tree cottages"). In 1901, he married Martha Schröder. He made book illustrations in an art nouveau style, and executed decorative paintings for the town hall of Bremen shortly before traveling to Ceylon in 1906. During a trip to Łódź, he studied Maxim Gorky's works, which resulted in the development of a deep sympathy for the working class. This feeling reached further heights when he saw life in the slums

  Edward Penfield (June 2, 1866 - February 8, 1925) was an American painter, illustrator, and publicist. Father of the modern poster in the United States. With a style characterized by drawings in vast backgrounds cut out on a light background and text strongly integrated with the image, he is considered one of the pioneers of American graphics. Originally from Brooklyn, he studied art in his hometown and around 1890 took painting lessons from the impressionist George de Forest Brush. From 1891 to 1901 he was art director of important magazines such as Harper's, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Weekly for which he also edited the advertising. The works for Harper & Brothers will remain among the most significant of his career.

  Franklin Morris Howarth (1864–1908) was an American cartoonist and pioneering comic strip artist. Howarth was born in Philadelphia on September 27, 1864. He was the oldest of four children of William and Sarah (Iseminger) Howarth. His father was a pattern maker and an English immigrant, his mother a native Philadelphian. Howarth attended Central High School. By age 19 Howarth was drawing for the Philadelphia Call and other papers, after which he began to be employed by national periodicals such as Munsey's Magazine, Life, Judge, and Truth. He joined the staff of Puck in 1891, and moved to the New York World in 1901. Howarth, whose style for figures frequently featured big heads on little bodies, was among the first generation of cartoonists to create serial cartoons, which came to be called comic strips. According to author Jared Gardner, "F. M Howarth's work is representative of the development of sequential graphic narrative during this period... Howarth fractured

  Aage Sikker Hansen was a Danish artist who was born in 1897. Aage Sikker Hansen's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 56 USD to 667 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is 667 USD for.

  Henri Fournier (Le Mans, 14 April 1871 - Paris, 18 December 1919) was a French racing driver. Fournier began his career on motorcycles and tricycles. In 1901 he came to the Mors stable and was the most successful driver of that year, winning both Paris-Bordeaux and Paris-Berlin. In addition to his racing career, he performed well in speed tests and set a new record for the mile in his car in the United States. At the 1902 Paris-Vienna he also dominated the first stage with an average speed of 114 km/h, but later had to give up due to a transmission failure. In the autumn of that year, he set the then land speed record at 123 km/h.

  Howard V. Brown (1878-1945) is a US illustrator who, even though his sf Illustration represented only a small proportion of his prodigious output, became one of the Big Four sf illustrators of the 1930s (with Leo Morey, Frank R Paul and H W Wesso). He received his formal art education at Chicago's Art Institute and became based in New York. Among the books that he illustrated during his early career were all six volumes of Katharine Elizabeth Dopp's educational Industrial and Social History series about our prehistoric ancestors, beginning with The Tree Dwellers (1904). He was cover artist for Scientific American circa 1913-1931, typically showing human figures dwarfed by gigantic technological projects. Starting with a simple, almost primitive style, Brown rapidly developed into one of the most dramatic cover illustrators of that era. His first cover for an SF Magazine proper was for the October 1933 issue of Astounding, the magazine having just been bought by Street &

  Arpad Schmidhammer, actually Arpath Emil Schmidhammer, (born February 12, 1857 in St. Joachimsthal; † May 13, 1921 in Munich) was a German book illustrator and caricaturist. He was born on February 12, 1857 as the son of the art master Josef Schmidhammer and Carolina née Lechner in house number 10 in Sankt Joachimsthal and two days later was baptized as a Roman Catholic with the name Arpath Emil Schmidhammer. His grandfather was the school teacher Jakob Schmidhammer in Hardenberg. Arpad Schmidhammer worked i.a. for the magazine Jugend as one of the first illustrators, also for the anthology Knecht Ruprecht (1900) and the youth country. In addition to numerous contributions as a children's book illustrator, he also wrote his own children's books. Many of the books he illustrated were published by Jos. Scholz in Mainz, mostly in the series Scholz' Artist's Picture Books, Scholz' Artistic Coloring Books and Scholz' Artistic People's Picture Books. Schmidha

  Honor Charlotte Appleton (1879-1951). Honor Appleton represented childhood innocence without resorting to sentimentality, most notably in her illustrations to Mrs Cradock's 'Josephine' stories. these are, for the most part, an exquisitely naturalistic depiction of a young girl's life, with occasional, but increasing suggestions that her dolls are also alive. Honor Appleton was born at 30 St Michael's Place, Brighton, Sussex, on 4 February 1879, the third of four children of the Rev John Appleton and his wife, Georgina (née Wilkie). By 1891, her father had died, and she had moved with her mother and siblings to London, and had settled at 41 Edith Road, Fulham, London. Having shown a talent for art from an early age, she studied at the National Art Training School, South Kensington, and then at Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting, at 54 Baker Street, where she gained a scholarship. This was followed by a brief period in the studio of Sir Arthur Cope RA