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...

  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.

  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...

  Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He became most widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker. Sendak described his childhood as a "terrible situation" due to the death of members of his extended family during the Holocaust which introduced him at a young age to the concept of mortality. His love of books began when, as a child, he developed health issues and was confined to his bed. When he was 12 years old, he decided to become an i...

  João Bragato is a Brazilian visionary and very talented artist who draws whimsical characters and creatures that would fit perfectly into the world of some cool dystopian fantasy. As a freelance illustrator, he has made projects for visual communication agencies, fantasy books, magazines, card/board games, etc... Over the course of his career, he has made projects for clients such as: Cryptozoic Entertainment, Panda Mony, Toy Brands, 3Dtotal , HobbyHorse Games and EPIC Games. He currently lives in London, where he works as a freelance Concept Artist for EPIC Games, developing concept art for the game Fortnite. João is also an instructor, and has as a focus inspiration and artistic education in the creation of personal projects and studies, dedicating himself to teaching two fundamentals of digital art at CG WORLD | School of Arts.

  Chinese illustrator, obtained a master's degree from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2004 and is currently a partner of the London-based design company Shotopop, whose clients include important international brands. Shan Jiang's work is heavily influenced by his hometown of Shanghai in a blend of contemporary architecture and popular beliefs, communist ideology and burgeoning subcultures. The artist is also inspired by Chinese realistic painting, the Japanese Ukiyo-e art print genre, the Bauhaus, Dürer, manga and anime.

  Gerald Parel is a French comic book artist, illustrator, concept artist, animator, video game artist, and musician, currently living in Munich, Germany. He is well known for his work in the comic book industry. Gerald has worked on numerous Marvel Comics titles, including Iron Man: Season One in 2013, with 144 pages of sequential art, as well as cover art on titles such as Avengers, Spider-Man, X-Men, Star Wars, S.H.I.E.L.D and many blackberries. He made his debut with DC Comics in 2016 with interior and cover art for Batman: Europa. Gerald has also worked with many other publishers in the comic book industry, some of which including BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Valiant Comics, Vault Comics, Upper Deck, and many more. Gerald has also worked for many years on projects for Riot Games. Gerald is currently working on a variety of personal projects, covers in the comic book industry, and video game projects with Riot Games i...