Fernando Krahn

Krahn was born in Santiago de Chile. His first drawings date from the period between 1952 and 1956,[1] but his professional career, as a cartoonist and artist, did not start until 1961, in New York City,[2][3] where he lived until 1969;[1] during this time he had his cartoons published in magazines such as Esquire, The New Yorker, The Atlantic (then The Atlantic Monthly) and The Reporter[2] He would return to his country in 1971, where he worked for the magazine Ercilla,[1] but in 1973 had to move to Sitges, Spain, in order to escape from the September 11 coup d'état.[3] After receiving a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,[4][5] he was able to produce his first animated film, El crimen perfecto, in 1976.[4] In 1984, he began to work for the Barcelona's newspaper La Vanguardia, where he would publish cartoons and works of animation for the rest of his life.[3]

Krahn contributed to newspapers such as El País, International Herald Tribune, Die Zeit and La Repubblica.[4] He authored and illustrated more than forty children's books published in the United States, Spain, Chile and Venezuela;[3] this work earned him the SM Ediciones' International Illustration Prize in 2001.[4] Besides his work as an illustrator, he led Krahnfactory, an animated motion studio where he acted as scriptwriter and producer.[3] There have been a few exhibitions devoted to his work: in 2006 Sabadell held one which was focused on his early work[1] and Lleida hosted another one in 2008.[4]

Fernando had a daughter, called Fernanda,[3] and two sons Santiago and Matias and he was married to Chilean writer María de la Luz Uribe, who died in 1994.[4] Some of his wife's books were illustrated by him and her death is said to have influenced his later work.[2] Krahn died in Barcelona[3][6] on 18 February 2010 of an intestinal ischemia.[3][7]

• Fernando Krahn's animation studio's official website
• Works by Fernando Krahn in LaVanguardia.es