Felicitas Kuhn (3 January 1926 – 4 October 2022) was an Austrian children's book illustrator whose career started in the 1940s.

Biography

Kuhn was born in January 1926 in

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, Austria. She graduated from the Federal Training and Research Institute for Graphic Arts and Media and began working for the magazine '' Wunderwelt'' in 1948, where she illustrated the story of the middle pages, in addition to numerous text drawings. Then followed work as a freelance

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er. She illustrated many children's and

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books,

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s and

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s, children's

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s and

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designs. Kuhn married in 1950, and had a son and three grandchildren. From 1995 she lived in

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, where she died on 4 October 2022, at the age of 96.

References

1926 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Austrian women artists Illustrators of fairy tales Artists from Vienna Austrian children's book illustrators Austrian illustrators Austrian women illustrators 20th-century illustrators {{Austria-artist-stub