J. C. Leyendecker

Joseph Christian " J. C. " Leyendecker ( born March 23, 1874 in Montabaur, Germany, † 25 July 1951, New Rochelle, New York) was an American artist and illustrator.

Life

Leyendecker emigrated in 1882 at the age of eight years with his parents and his brother Frank to the United States. He showed an early interest in painting, was already working as a sixteen year-old in Chicago as a painter and engraver in J. Manz & Co. and took the evening hours at John H. Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute. Then he decided, in 1896 with his brother Frank to go to Paris for two years to educate yourself at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi.

Even before he left for Europe won Leyendecker Maxfield Parrish before an advertised by Century Magazine competition for title images, which provided for its national prominence. After his return in 1898 Leyendecker began to paint the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. He created so among other things, the so-called " Saturday Evening Post babies " and the " Arrow collar man " and worked in the period that followed, among others, for the magazines American Weekly, Collier's, the Popular Magazine and Century Illustrated.

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