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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
poet, literary, painter, philosopher, resistance fighter, illustrator, Nobel Prize winner, bookseller, pacifist, librettist
- Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019)
illustrator, postage stamp designer, photographer, caricaturist, graphic artist
- École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg
Chester Brown (born 1960)
cartoonist, politician, comics artist
- Dawson College
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
journalist, poet, autobiographer, philosopher, biographer, illustrator, literary historian, essayist, playwright, opinion journalist, historian, literary critic
- University College London, Slade School of Fine Art
Art Spiegelman (born 1948)
comics artist, editor, illustrator, printmaker, drawer
- Binghamton University
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
painter, architect, art historian, biographer, art theorist, aesthetician, architectural draftsperson, visual artist
Giovanni Baglione (1565-1643)
painter, art historian, historian, architectural draftsperson, drawer
Brian Clarke (born 1953)
painter, professor, visual artist, sculptor, ceramicist, stained-glass artist, printmaker, tapestry designer, installation artist, scenographer