| Edward
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 21 Oct 1883
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Date of death - 1957 |
| Place of birth
- Putney, South London : |
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Born Edward Julius Detmold in London 1883. Edward had a twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold.
The twin brothers were tutored by an uncle who fostered their artistic talents and a love for natural history. Their animal subjects were always among the most sensitive of their drawings. Prodigious early talents, they exhibited watercolors at the Royal Academy when they were 13 and had a portfolio of etchings issued in 1898.
The brothers worked jointly on their etchings and illustrations. Their first book illustrations were produced jointly for the 1899 Pictures From Birdland.
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Their next project, at the ripe old age of 20, was a portfolio of 16 watercolors inspired by Kipling's The Jungle Book (1908).
They were well on their way to joint and individual success when Maurice suddenly committed suicide in 1908. He was 24. No satisfactory explanation for the act has even been given. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of suicide 'whilst unsound of mind' and there was apparently a note as well.
Edward was stunned by the sudden death of his twin, but managed to continue on with his art. He lost himself in his work - etchings and drawings and paintings; even colored block prints.
Detmold went to live in Montgomeryshire where, after a long retirement and almost totally forgotten, he died in July, 1957. Strangely, there exists no official record of his death."
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