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]