- Fritz Baumgarten
Fritz Baumgarten (
December 21 ,1886 – ?) was a German footballer.He played as a goalkeeper for the Berlin club "
BFC Germania ". OnApril 5 ,1908 inBasel ,Switzerland Baumgarten was part of the national side in Germany's first ever international match which they lost 3:5 to the Swiss. This was his only appearance for the national team.
Fritz Baumgarten (1883-1966) was a Germanillustrator .He illustrated countless children's books in light pen works, coloured richly and very painterly with watercolours.His style was very modern, loose and impressionistic, but still with strong roots in life-drawing, animals drawing and academic composition.His fantasy world was populated with temperate forests'animals, elves and fairies, farm animals, children and teddy bears.His whole work has a definite feeling of possible, of real, of lived through scenes, almost down to earth, while at the same time being totally free-floating in imagination, almost psychedelical.He definitely was a genius, and if he'd been born American or British, his name would be as famous today as those of Arthur Rackham, Beatrix Potter, Howard Pyle, Walt Kelly, John Tenniel or Maxfield Parrish.
=References=* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Baumgarten_%28Illustrator%29 German Wikipedia page devoted to Fritz Baumgarten with a good list of some of his printed works]
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