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| Nationality - German |
Profession - Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 1900
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Date of death - 1973 |
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Fritz Kredel was born in Michelstadt, 1900. The son of an architect and an urban building supervisor - he studied medicine in Heidelberg and after graduation in 1833 begame an advanced training stay in Paris and soon after established a practice in Frankfurt.
Active in Germany before coming to America, Kredel's career began in the 1920s, when the world-famous graphic artist and designer Rudolf Koch invited Kredel to join his studio. There Kredel perfected the art of making woodcuts which combined unusually high technical virtuosity and rich, minute detail, with a lyrical and expressive linear quality rarely achieved in hard pear wood.
Early in his career, Kredel received the coveted Gold Medal for Book Illustration at the 1937 Paris World Exposition. Shortly after coming to America, he illustrated Eleanor Roosevelt's book, Christmas, written for children, and he was commissioned to create a woodcut of the Presidential seal for the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
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A member of the Grolier Club until his death in 1973, Fritz Kredel was a prolific and versatile artist of the book as well as works in a larger format. His rich legacy of pen and ink drawings, watercolors and woodcuts was produced on two continents and spanned a period of more than fifty years.
Kredel died in New York in 1973. |
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