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Richard Floethe was educated in Germany where he studied at the Dortmund Art School, the Munich State School of Art, and the Bauhaus in Weimar.
He spent much of his career as a book illustrator, designing over fifty books. His designs and illustrations for Tyl Ulenspiegl (1935) and Pinocchio (1938) won the Limited Editions Club Prize. |
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Floethes work was shown in The 50 Books of the Year exhibitions sponsored by the Society of Graphic Arts in 1934 and 1936. His work as a printmaker (woodcuts and serigraphs) is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Kerlan Collection of the University of Minnesota.
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