Background
Richard Floethe was born on September 2, 1901, in Essen, Germany.
Richard Floethe at work
(Charming Children's story of a little Seminole Indian boy...)
Charming Children's story of a little Seminole Indian boy and his family life in the Florida Everglades with Color illustrations throughout by Richard Floethe.
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Grass-Louise-Lee-Floethe/dp/B0006AYLGI/?tag=2022091-20
1963
(A loving revision of what Fantasy and Science Fiction nam...)
A loving revision of what Fantasy and Science Fiction named the best children’s science fiction book of 1955. With the original and never-before-published art from Richard Floethe.
https://www.amazon.com/Venus-Boy-60th-Anniversary-Revised-ebook/dp/B013J8DWQ8/?tag=2022091-20
Richard Floethe was born on September 2, 1901, in Essen, Germany.
Richard received his art training at the Munich State School, the Dartmund Art School, and at the Bauhaus in Weimar. While at the Bauhaus, he studied design with Paul Klee and color theory and composition with Wassily Kandinsky.
Richard's first major commission as an artist was a mural for the International Exposition in Cologne, Germany in 1928. He came to the United States later that year and found early success in New York City as an industrial designer and book illustrator, and by the mid-1930s his work was internationally known. From 1936-1939 he was administrator and art director of the New York City poster division of the WPA art projects. From 1942-1943 he was art director of the New York War Service.
During his long, successful career as a book illustrator, he designed and illustrated nearly 100 books - mostly for children. He also illustrated 23 children’s books written by his wife, Louise Lee Floethe. Floethe was an instructor of commercial design at Cooper Union, New York City and of illustration at the Ringling School of Art, Sarasota.
Floethe’s watercolors and prints are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the St Louis and Philadelphia Museums, the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach, Germany, the Spencer Collection, the Kerlan Collection of the University of Minnesota, the University of Oregon, the University of South Florida, and in many private collections.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Richard Floethe created a number of watercolors, oil paintings and silkscreen prints that celebrate the beauty and unique environment of the west coast of Florida, where he lived, and the Western and Southwestern United States, where he often visited. These gaily colored, often whimsical works were shown in one-person shows at the Frank J. Oehlschlaeger Galleries and Madison-Noble Gallery in Sarasota.
(Charming Children's story of a little Seminole Indian boy...)
1963(A loving revision of what Fantasy and Science Fiction nam...)
(Spending the summer in a dull French village is not what ...)
Floethe married American children’s book writer Louise Lee in 1937.