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.

  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...

  Hermann Vogel (16 October 1854 – 22 February 1921) was a German illustrator. Vogel was born in Plauen, Kingdom of Saxony, as the son of a master builder. From 1874–75 he studied at the art academy of Dresden. Vogel worked for the publishing company Braun & Schneider and was a founding member of the Deutsche Kunstgesellschaft (German art association) and contributed to Julius Lohmeyer's journal Die deutsche Jugend and the weekly periodical Fliegende Blätter. Vogel early followed the Nazarene movement, while his later material was in the Biedermeier style. Illustrations by Vogel appeared in an 1881 publication of Auserwählte Märchen by Hans Christian Andersen, in an 1887 publication of Volksmärchen der Deutschen by Johann Karl August Musäus, and in 1891 in Die Nibelungen by Gustav Schalk. From 1896–99 Vogel's works were collected into two volumes. Volumes 3 and 4 appeared in 1903 and 1908, respectively. He illustrated an edition of Bluebeard in 1887, The Juniper Tree in...

  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...

  Brian Froud (Winchester, 1947) is an English painter and illustrator. He lives and works in Devon with his wife Wendy Froud, also a fantasy artist. His paintings are often inspired by the nature of Dartmoor, in the Devon National Park, and by European folklore and mythology. Froud is known worldwide for his paintings of fairies and other creatures of the Sidhe. Together with Alan Lee he wrote and illustrated the book Fate (1978), which became one of the best known texts of the 20th century and was published in Italy in 1979. In 2002 a special edition of Fate with eight pages was published (not in Italy). plus and new designs, which once again met with great success. In addition to his countless picture books, Brian also has credits as a concept artist for several films, including Jim Henson's Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.

  Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 – April 9, 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.

  Alan Lee (Middlesex, 20 August 1947) is an English illustrator and painter, best known for being the first to illustrate The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien; in 2004 he won the Academy Award for best art direction with the film The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King by Peter Jackson. He graduated in graphics and design at Ealing School of Art. After graduation he worked as a freelance illustrator, mainly creating covers and illustrations, drawing inspiration in part from his interest in mythology and folktales. In the mid-1970s he left London for Dartmoor, Devon, with colleagues Marja Lee Kruyt (to whom he was married for many years) and Brian Froud. He quickly established himself as a world-renowned illustrator, painting delicate watercolors for many well-known books, including The Mabinogion, Castles, Merlin Dreams and Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Illiad, which earned him the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1978, together with Brian Froud, the...

  Frédéric Pillot is a well-known illustrator of books and magazines for children and young people in France. He is a post-war and contemporary artist born in 1967. His first work was " LES SOUVENIRS DU GRAND CHÊNE, MILAN " at Christie's Paris in 2016.

  Cyril Bouda, christened Cyrill Mikoláš Bouda (14 November 1901 – 29 August 1984), was a Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator and professor at Charles University in Prague Born in Kladno, Bouda lived most of his life in Prague. Both of his parents were artists; his father was a high school teacher of drawing, his mother Anna Boudová Suchardová (sister of sculptors Stanislav Sucharda and Vojtěch Sucharda) was an artist and industrial designer. Mikoláš Aleš, the well-known Czech painter, was his godfather. In 1923 Bouda graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts in Prague under František Kysela, and in 1926 he completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied under Max Švabinský. He was also an assistant to T. F. Šimon at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1946–1972 he worked as a teacher and later as a professor at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague and in Brandýs nad Labem (1964–1972). Among his students at Charles University...

  Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891 – December 30, 1980) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. She was born in Albany, New York, April 16, 1891 to Ida Pulis Lathrop and Cyprus Clark Lathrop.  Her sister was artist Gertrude K. Lathrop. During a prolific career spanning from 1919 to 1967, she used her artistic skills as an illustrator of other authors' children's fictional literature: more than 38 books were published with her illustrations. Lathrop wrote and illustrated nine children's books and several topical nonfiction books. She was also an accomplished printmaker. Much of her work was devoted to the beauty and importance of animals. Lathrop's career began around 1919, when her first published suite of illustrations appeared in Walter de la Mare's book for children, The Three Mulla-Mulgars. Lathrop developed a friendship with de la Mare, and thereafter illustrated five more of his books for children: Down-Adown-Derry (1922), Crossing...