Illustrationintheworld

  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 It brings together illustrations, excerpts from books and unpublished material.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.

  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...

  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...

  Guillermo Mordillo Menéndez, better known simply as Mordillo (Villa Pueyrredón, August 4, 1932 - Palma de Mallorca, June 29, 2019), was an Argentine cartoonist, illustrator and animator. He was among the most published cartoonists in many countries of the world during the seventies.His drawings - which appeared on puzzles, diaries and posters - are characterized by bright colors and, above all, by a strong sense of humor. The characters in his cartoons are mostly funny little men who do not express themselves with words but through gestures, in scenes developed particularly in the sphere of sport (with a preference for soccer and golf) and married life. His other well-known cartoons are those with long-necked animals, such as giraffes, whose adventures have been collected in several volumes.

  Walter Trier (25 June 1890, Prague – 8 July 1951 Craigleith, near Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) was a Czech-German illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kästner and the covers of the magazine Lilliput. Trier was born to a middle class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. In 1905, Trier entered the Industrial School of Fine and Applied Arts; he later moved to the Prague Academy. In 1906, he entered the Royal Academy, Munich, where he studied under Franz Stuck and Erwin Knirr. In 1910, at age 20, Trier moved to Berlin where he spent most of his career. There he became known for his caricatures and children's book illustrations. Trier married Helene Mathews in 1913; a daughter, Margaret, was born a year later. An anti-fascist, Trier's cartoons were bitterly opposed by the Nazis. In 1936 he emigrated to London. During the Second World War, Trier helped the Ministry of Information produce anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda. He ...

  Rea Irvin (August 26, 1881 – May 28, 1972) was an American graphic artist. Although never formally credited as such, he served de facto as the first art editor of The New Yorker. He created the Eustace Tilley cover portrait and the New Yorker typeface. He first drew Tilley for the cover of the magazine's first issue on February 21, 1925. Tilley appeared annually on the magazine's cover every February until 1994. As one commentator has written, "a truly modern bon vivant, Irvin was also a keen appreciator of the century of his birth. His high regard for both the careful artistry of the past and the gleam of the modern metropolis shines from the very first issue of the magazine …".

  Charles Folkard was born in Lewisham, South London, on 6 April 1878, the son of a printer. Educated locally at Colfe's Grammar School, he began an apprenticeship with a firm of designers, but left to become a conjuror. It was in designing programs for his shows that he discovered his talent for drawing. He then studied at various art schools – including Goldsmiths' College and those at St John's Wood, Blackheath and Sidcup – while beginning to establish a career as an illustrator. Initially contributing humorous drawings to such periodicals as Little Folks and The Tatler, he made his name, in 1910, with illustrations to an edition of Johann Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson. A year later, he illustrated The Children's Shakespeare and Grimm's Fairy Tales, so initiating a relationship with the publisher, A & C Black, which would last for twenty-seven years. In 1915, Folkard joined the Daily Mail as a staff artist and, in that position, invented the newspape...

  Painter, illustrator and writer (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Linked to art nouveau, he renewed illustration and children's literature in Italy, introducing a charge of irreverent fantasy and capturing in the world of children the taste for the negation of roles and the availability for the unexpected. He was one of the founders (1908) of Corriere dei piccoli, for which he designed the masthead and many bizarre characters (Quadratino, Kikì parrot of Kili, Pierino and the puppet, Lillo and Lalla, etc.). He wrote and illustrated numerous volumes, including: Verses and drawings (1911); Viperetta (1919); Tic and tac (1919), The frottolie (1929); Almost True Fairy Tales (1936).

  Gary Chalk (Hertfordshire, 1952) is an English illustrator and writer. Raised in rural Hertfordshire, England where he started playing wargames at the age of 15. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in design and later worked as an art teacher and design and then later abandoning teaching to pursue a career as an illustrator. He currently lives in Villedieu-les-Poêles, France. He is best known for his contributions to the Lone Wolf saga book series, written by Joe Dever, illustrating the first 8 and the color illustrated guide The Magnamund Companion (Dawn of the Darklords). He also designed the role-playing game (The Lone Wolf RPG) published by the French Mongoose Publishing. After the interruption of the illustrations for lone wolf, Chalk, together with the writer David Kerrigan, started a project for a new gamebook between 1988 and 1989, entitled Prince of Shadows which incorporated many features of the fantasy literary saga conceived by Joe Dever. The series, published...