[2][1] He acknowledged that his style of anthropomorphized animals, small beings, and plants was influenced by the illustrator Ernst Kreidolf.
[3] His whole work has a definite feeling of possible, of real, of lived through scenes, almost down to earth, while at the same time being totally free-floating in imagination, almost psychedelic.
[citation needed] Fritz Baumgarten studied at the Fine Arts academies in Dresden and Munich, then completed military service, before returning to Leipzig in 1908.
[citation needed] Around the beginning of the 1960s, his creative power waned, Fritz Baumgarten was soon 80 years old, and the number of his annually published children's and picture books decreased significantly.
Fritz Baumgarten illustrated books written by Albert Sixtus, Märchen von Erich Heinemann, Helge Darnstädt, Lena Hahn, Liselotte Burger, Rose Pflock, Friedrich Zöbigker, Hamster und Igel, Eine lustige Geschichte, Wolfgang Männel, Christine Groß.