Illustrationintheworld

  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...

  Georges de Feure (real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters, 6 September 1868 – 26 November 1943) was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the symbolism and Art Nouveau styles. De Feure was born in Paris. His father was an affluent Dutch architect, and his mother was Belgian. De Feure had two sons, Jean Corneille and Pierre Louis, in the early 1890s with his mistress Pauline Domec and a daughter with his first wife Marguerite Guibert (married 7 July 1897). In 1886, de Feure was one of the eleven students admitted at the Rijkscademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, which he did however leave very quickly for Paris since he felt that formal academic training had nothing to offer him. Being of very independent nature, de Feure never again took up formal artistic studies, and forged his own independent path. He was however influenced by Jules Chéret in his posters for the café concert but most likely was never his pupil and became the key designe...

  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.

  Earl Oliver Hurst was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1898. After a stint in World War I, he took night classes at the Cleveland School of Art while working days at The Plain Dealer, where he drew political cartoons and fashion illustrations. From there he took a job as art director at a direct mail house. It was while in this position that he discovered his covers for booklets were being pirated and used on national magazines. Hurst saw this as patently unfair and on leaving the studio job, set out to make himself visible in broader markets. He reasoned that if he had time to experiment, he could put himself into a nationally prominent position, so he explored his skills in seclusion. But without the discipline of client-imposed deadlines, Hurst's work began to suffer as did his finances, so he came out of exile. But the artist was unsure of how to pick up where he had left off in his career.

  Artist/illustrator Ruth Eastman (Rodgers) (December 27, 1882 — July 1976) was well known in her day for pictorializing female beauty, energy and abilities. She was born and raised in Nassau, Long Island. Her father, George W. Eastman, was an attorney specializing in real estate who founded the Roslyn Savings Bank and was active in politics and temperance activities. Ruth's mother was Jennie Rushmore who also had two other surviving children, Lester and Mortimer. The couple kept a lovely home that was a refuge and resort for their many friends. Ruth enjoyed a privileged upbringing and studied art in New York with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League. She would later study art in Paris and London, as well. By 1903, she was teaching illustration classes at the Art Students League. That year she also took two first place prizes in the Queens-Nassau Fair for a black and white sketch of an energetic businessman walking along a city street and for a pen and ink sketc...

  Gino Boccasile, born Luigi Boccasile (Bari, 14 July 1901 - Milan, 10 May 1952), was an Italian illustrator, advertiser and painter. He graduated from the Bari School of Arts and Crafts. In 1932 he moved to Milan where he collaborated with the advertising studio of Achille Mauzan. A successful illustrator, he proposes an image of a sensual and busty woman, a symbol of female beauty, widely exploited later in the advertising field. During the war he created numerous billboards for fascist propaganda, for the Italian Social Republic and for the Anti-tubercular Campaign. In 1934 he exhibited in Paris at the Salone degli Indipendenti and in 1936 he took part in the I Mostra del Cartellone in Rome. Gino Boccasile, who passed away at the age of only 51, was one of the most popular and highly regarded Italian poster designers. He achieved notoriety by drawing provocative women for the covers of the magazine «Le grandi firme» published in the 1930s by Pitigrilli. He began designing pos...

  Gus Bofa (born Charles Blanchot) (23 May 1883 in Brive-la-Gaillarde – 1 September 1968) was a French illustrator, known for his work on satirical newspapers and erotic novels. Son of Colonel Charles Blanchot (1834-1918), of whom he was the 11th and penultimate child, he spent his childhood in Bordeaux then moved to Paris (his father was appointed military commander of the Senate) where he enrolled at the Lycée Henri - IV, establishment where he met André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Maurice Constantin-Weyer who would remain his closest friends. It was at the early age of five that he invented his artist name, Gus Bofa. After a few years as an engineer, he launched into posters and took part in Le Rire, then Le Sourire and La Petite Sirène. He also designs costumes and sets for the theatre. During the First World War he composed the covers of the magazine La Baïonnette. Between the wars, he collaborated with the monthly Le Crapouillot.

Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893 – March 17, 1977) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson's art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper. He studied architecture briefly at McGill University, then became an undistinguished cartoonist for some newspapers in Montreal, contributing Pierre et Pierrette to La Patrie. Rejected by the Canadian army at the start of World War I, he moved to Chicago to become a catalog illustrator. His early career included interior design for department stores like Carson Pirie Scott & Company and Marshall Field. A trip to Paris gave him the opportunity to paint and attend life-drawing classes. From 1916 to 1919, he intermittently attended the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1924, Patterson made an attempt to carve out a living as a fine artist. Traveling to the Southwest with his paintings, however, he found the art galleries i...

  Annie Fish (27 March 1890 – 10 October 1964) was a British cartoonist and illustrator. Her illustration of "Eve" in ‘The Tatler’ spawned films, theatre and books. She was born in Horfield (Bristol) before her family moved to London. She went to work for the publisher John Lane . Her debut work was creating cartoons for Stephen Leacock 's humorous book Behind the Beyond. Her work was compared to Aubrey Beardsley although Fish noted that she did not see his work until after the comparison had been made . She was the illustrator of "Eve" until 1920 and after that the character continued to appear in Pan magazine illustrated by Jo White and later Dolly Tree.