Education
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg.
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg.
He served as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World World War II and spent 1945-1949 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. He is well known for illustrating German editions of literary classics such as works by East.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.