F. J. Tripp

F. J. Tripp, whose full name was Franz Josef Tripp, was born in Essen in 1915 and died in 1978. He initially worked as a journalist and writer before beginning to illustrate his own texts shortly before the Second World War. After the war, he devoted himself to painting and graphic design and became a freelance graphic artist in 1949. He is best known for illustrating Michael Ende’s two Jim Button books, as well as Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt, The Little Ghost, and the three Robber Hotzenplotz books.