Frank Xavier Leyendecker (January 19, 1876 – April 18, 1924), also known as Frank James Leyendecker, was a German-American commercial artist and illustrator. He worked with his brother

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, in their studio, first in

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, then later in

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and

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Biography

Franz Xavier Leyendecker was born in Montabour,

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on January 19, 1876. In 1884 he immigrated with his parents and three siblings to Chicago where an uncle owned the McAvoy Brewery. From 1895-1897 he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris,

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. He was known for his stained glass work as well as his illustrations for posters, books,

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and advertisements. He provided artwork for ads for Kum-a-Part jewelry, E. Howard Watch Company, Franklin automobiles,

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clothes, Right Posture clothes, Ohio Electric automobiles, Remington Arms/Union Metallic Carbide, Durham hosiery, and BVD underwear. He painted covers for a large number of mass-readership magazines including Street & Smith pulp magazines, such as People's Favorite Magazine and The Popular Magazine, as well as for Fawcett's pulp magazine Battle Stories. His painting for Battle Stories was originally created as a WWI recruitment poster that Fawcett Publications posthumously reprinted as a pulp magazine cover in 1931. His work was described as an "important feature" of the second exhibition of the Society of Illustrators at the International gallery in New York. Leyendecker served as the judge in the first Strathmore Water Color Contest, sponsored by the Mittineague Paper Company of Massachusetts. Frank Leyendecker and his sister Augusta Mary Leyendecker and the model Charles A. Beach lived for a time in a large house built and co-owned by the two brothers in

, New York. Leyendecker was suffering from depression and poor health due to his ongoing drug addiction, when he died, most likely by suicide, of a morphine overdose on April 18, 1924, at the age of 48.Frank Leyendecke profile
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