COVER ONLY DATE OF ** ORIGINAL ** ADVERTISEMENT: 1904 COMPANY NAME: COLLIERS PRODUCT(S): MAGAZINE CITY / TOWN-STATE: OWNER: ENDORSER: ARTIST: LEYENDECKER
Frank Xavier Leyendecker(January 19, 1876 – April 18, 1924), also known asFrank James Leyendecker, was a German-American commercial artist andillustrator. He worked with his brotherJoseph Christian Leyendeckerfirst inChicago,[1]then later inNew York CityandNew Rochelle, New York. He is best known for his magazine cover art forVogue,Vanity Fair, andLife, but also provided artwork for a large number of advertisers.
Biography[edit]
Franz Xavier Leyendecker was born inMontabaur, Germany on January 19, 1876. In 1884 he immigrated with his parents and three siblings to Chicago where an uncle owned the McAvoy Brewery. From 1895-1897 he studied at theAcadémie Julianin Paris, France.[2]
He was known for hisstained glasswork as well as his illustrations for posters, books,magazinesand advertisements. He provided artwork for ads forKum-a-Partjewelry,E. Howard Watch Company,Franklin automobiles,Kuppenheimerclothes,Right Postureclothes,Ohio Electric Car Company,Remington Arms/Union Metallic Cartridge,Durham hosiery, andBVDunderwear. He painted covers for a large number of mass-readership magazines including Street & Smith pulp magazines, such asPeople's Favorite MagazineandThe Popular Magazine, as well as for Fawcett's pulp magazineBattle Stories. His artwork forBattle Storieswas initially produced as a WWI recruitment poster and reprinted as a pulp magazine cover by Fawcett Publications in 1931.[3]His work was described as an "important feature" of the second exhibition of the Society of Illustrators at the International gallery in New York.[4]
Leyendecker served as the judge in the first Strathmore Water Color Contest, sponsored by the Mittineague Paper Company of Massachusetts.[5]
Frank Leyendecker and his sister Augusta Mary Leyendecker and the modelCharles A. Beachlived for a time in a large house built and co-owned by the two brothers inNew Rochelle, New York.[6]
Leyendecker was suffering from depression and poor health due to his ongoing drug addiction when he died, most likely by suicide, of a morphine overdose on April 18, 1924, at the age of 48.[3]
DATE PRINTED ON ITEM: YES ADVERT SIZE: APPROX- 10" x 14-1/2"ITEM GRADE: VERY GOOD
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