William Wallace Denslow

William Wallace Denslow ( born May 5, 1856 in Philadelphia, † March 29, 1915 ) was an illustrator and cartoonist who is today because of his collaboration with author L. Frank Baum known. His most famous illustrations are the ones he created for the American edition of the Wizard of Oz.

Life

William Wallace Denslow was born in Philadelphia, but lived from the 1890s in Chicago, where he met a tree. In addition to the well-known book, The Wizard of Oz, in which both together held the rights, he created together with tree By the Candelabra 's Glare, Father Goose: His Book and Dot and Tot in Merryland.

The Wizard of Oz, who quickly became a huge success, towered over other children's books that appeared at the same time, also. A large part of this was Denslow's illustrations. Denslow was significantly influenced by both the Art Nouveau and from the Japanese woodblock print. Art critics include the illustrations that created Denslow for the Wizard of Oz, to his best work, and the art critic JM Bowles said Denslow 1903 " Impressionists for the little ones ," the utterly destroy everything inessential from his drawings. Many of the reviewers were enthusiastic about the pictures, this sometimes praised more than the text or led to the success of the book mainly on her back.

Criticized occasionally the little childlike drawing of Dorothy by Denslow. Also tree later statements and letters to his wife Maud suggest that tree shared this assessment. Years later he wrote that an author is seldom agree with the illustration of his characters, as they rarely agree voted with his imagination.

Cooperation between Denslow and tree ended in 1902 when they fell out because of their rights to a musical revue, which was based on tree Wizard of Oz. Denslow had become so wealthy from his rights to the book and the stage version that he could afford to buy an island off the coast of Bermuda. He crowned himself "King Denslow the First ". However, Denslow was also an alcoholic and lost his fortune due to his alcoholism. He died on March 29, 1915 of pneumonia.