Paul Degen

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Paul Degen (born March 24th 1941 in Basel, died May 30, 2007 in Basel) was a Swiss illustrator, caricaturist, painter and sculptor.

He is mostly known for the cartoons he did for The New York Times and his 34 title illustrations for the magazine The New Yorker in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1992 he was awarded with the "Basel Innovation Prize" for inventing the "Roma birthing wheel".

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After his education as a lithograph at the Wassermann Ag in Basel and graduation from the "Kunstschule Basel", Paul Degen continued his education at the graphic design studio of Theo Ballmer and at the Académie Julianin Paris. In the 1960s Paul Degen worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator with Herbert Leupin, Celestino Piatti, Fritz Bühler and at the Atelier Eidenbenz in Switzerland. 1970 he moved to New York and worked, besides freelancing as a cartoonist and illustrator for The New York Times, Esquire, Harper's Magazine and The Atlantic Monthly, at the Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. After living in Brasil, Peru, Hawaii, Bali and his return to New York at the end of the 1988 Paul Degen moved back to Liestal near Basel in 1990. Paul Degen died on May 30, 2007 in Basel following an operation.

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NAME Degen, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH 24. March 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 30. May 2007
PLACE OF DEATH Basel