Eugen Hartung (born 5 July 1897 in Wäldi, Canton Thurgau; died 18 August 1973 in Zurich) was a Swiss painter and illustrator.
After attending the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, he made study trips to France and Italy, where he created numerous landscape and portrait paintings.
However, he made his breakthrough as an illustrator, where he quickly became known to a large audience with his cover photos for the popular youth magazine "Der Globi".
In addition, Hartung created illustrations for books such as "Der Schützenkönig" by Ernst Eschmann, Seldwyla Folks by Gottfried Keller, "Unser Heimatland 1291" by A. Gasser and his most famous work as illustrator for the songbook Chömed Chinde, mir wänd singe, published in 1946 by the Maggi food factory, Kemptthal.
[1] Eugen Hartung achieved another great success with his numerous illustrations of cats in human form, which were distributed as postcards all over the world.