Felicitas Kuhn

Who is Felicitas Kuhn?

Felicitas Kuhn is an Austrian artist who has illustrated children's books from the 1940s onward.

Kuhn was born on 3 January 1926 in Vienna. She graduated from the Advanced Computer Graphics Teaching and Research Institute 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 graphic designer. She has illustrated many children's and fairytale books, calendars and postcards, children's playing cards, greetings cards and Christmas designs.

Kuhn married in 1950, and has a son and three grandchildren. Since 1995 she has lived in Baden bei Wien.

The retirement of Felicitas Kuhn 1957 shortly before the tenth anniversary of the world was certainly a surprise loss for the children's newspaper. The lovely drawings of Kuhn be reprinted to this day regularly: Last Spring Children.

Brief Biography: Felicitas Kuhn was born on 1926 had completed as well as her future husband and successful advertising copywriter Helmut Kuhn at the Higher Graphic Training and Research Institute in Vienna, a trained engraver. One of its strengths was the naturalistic drawing of flowers and roses in particular. Several art calendar with rose images come from her. When she drew a rose, she sat down early in the morning and already painted up by the evening hours so that she could bring the noble plant in unaltered beauty on paper.