Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867 – 1939) was a prolific British book illustrator.
He was born in London as one of twelve children. At 18, he became a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and also took up studies at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he quit his clerk job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His first book illustrations were published in 1893. From then on until his death in 1939 in Limpsfield, Surrey he illustrated innumerable books.
Rackham won gold medals for his work. The first one was in Milan in 1906, the second in Barcelona in 1911.
Major works of Arthur Rackham include the children's books Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1900), Rip van Winkle (1905), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1907) and many others. He is even best known for his elaborate child literature illusrations, but he also illustrated books for adult readers, e.g. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1908), The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie (1911) and several fairy tale books.
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