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Apr 26, 1926 Amberg, Bavaria, Germany Died on 19 Mar 2003 (aged 76)
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About Michael Mathias Prechtl
- Michael Mathias Prechtl (April 26, 1926 – March 19, 2003) was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
- Prechtl was born in Amberg.
- He served as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II and spent 1945-49 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. He is well known for illustrating German editions of literary classics such as works by E.T.A.
- Hoffmann, Thomas More, Dante, Goethe, Benvenuto Cellini, and the letters of Mozart.
- He received more publicity for the numerous front page illustrations he made for Der Spiegel in the 1980s. Prechtl was married to the artist Frydl Zuleeg in 1956.
- He died in Nuremberg, aged 76.
