Frederick Strothmann

Frederick Strothmann (1872–1958) was an American illustrator of magazines and books.

Little is known about his early life, except that his parents were migrants to the United States from Germany.

[1] By 1900, Strothmann was established as an illustrator, working for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Life, Harper's Magazine, and Good Housekeeping.

[2] Strothmann created a well-known poster for the Liberty Bond drive of 1918, "Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds", showing a German soldier with blood on his hands, holding a bayonet and coming over the Atlantic Ocean towards burning ruins, which became an iconic image of the First World War.

[2] An obituary noted that Strothmann had continued to work as an illustrator until two years before his death[4]