Heinz Edelmann was a German illustrator and designer. He was born in �st� nad Labem, Czechoslovakia, into the Czech-German family of Wilhelm and Josefa Edelmann. He was well known as an illustrator in Europe, but is probably most famous for his art direction and character designs for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. Edelmann studied printmaking at the Kunstakademie D�sseldorf from 1953 to 1958. He began his career as a freelance illustrator and designer for theatre posters and advertising in Germany. Between 1961?1969 he was a regular illustrator and cover designer for the internationally renowned youth magazine twen. During 1967?1968, he worked on Yellow Submarine. Between 1968?1970 he was a partner in a small animation company in London, but his desire at the time to work on more feature films was not realised. In 1970 Edelmann moved to Amsterdam and designed book jackets and posters for plays and films. His last use of the style of Yellow Submarine was in illustrating a book, Andromedar SR1, about a voyage to Mars. [More at Wikipedia]

June 20th, 1934 in Ústí nad Labem  /  Died:   Jul 21st, 2009 - age 75