Fritz Baumgarten (illustrator)

Fritz Baumgarten (18 August 1883, Reudnitz (now part of Leipzig) – 3 November 1966, Leipzig) was a German illustrator.

He illustrated countless children's books in light pen works, coloured richly and very painterly with watercolours. His style was very modern, loose and impressionistic, but still with strong roots in life-drawing, animals drawing and academic composition.

His fantasy world was populated with temperate forests' animals, elves and fairies, farm animals, children and teddy bears. His whole work has a definite feeling of possible, of real, of lived through scenes, almost down to earth, while at the same time being totally free-floating in imagination, almost psychedelic.

References

German Wikipedia page devoted to Fritz Baumgarten with a good list of some of his printed works

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 62356449 LCCN: no2004000963 ISNI: 0000 0001 0800 897X GND: 119345536

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