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name: Leyendecker
vorname: Joseph Christian
wikidata-repräsentation: Q565457
gnd-repräsentation: 136404677
biografische angaben: Born March 23, 1874 in Montabour, Germany, died July 25, 1951. Brother and companion of Frank Xavier Leyendecker. He came to Chicago with his family at age eight. He became the most successful illustrator of his time, as the top cover artist for the Saturday Evening Post for twenty years and as a fashion illustrator who created the famous "Arrow Shirt Man" for the Arrow Collar Company. He was the artist the yourng Norman Rockwell most admired. Leyendecker had been apprenticed to a printing firm at fifteen and later studied at the School of the Art Institute. In 1896 he won a commission to design a year's worth of monthly cover designs for the Inland Printer. He and his brother then spent a year in Paris studying at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian. His teachers were William Bouguereau, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Benjamin Constant. Upon their return in 1897, they opened their studio in the Fine Arts Building, where they both executed murals. He spent the rest of his life in New York.