“Kater Murrs Galerie berühmter Katzen”. Artworks by Michael Mathias Prechtl – Design You Trust

“Kater Murrs Galerie berühmter Katzen”. Artworks by Michael Mathias Prechtl

Michael Mathias Prechtl (April 26, 1926, Amberg – March 19, 2003, Nuremberg) was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He served as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II and spent 1945-49 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union.

He is well known for illustrating German editions of literary classics such as works by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Thomas More, Dante, Goethe, Benvenuto Cellini, and the letters of Mozart. He received more publicity for the numerous front page illustrations he made for Der Spiegel in the 1980s.














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