Karel Thole

Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole (20 April 1914 – 26 March 2000) was a Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator.

In the 1930s, Thole made many antisemitic cartoons for the magazine of Dutch fascist party Zwart Front.

In 1980s Thole experienced an eye disease that compelled him to reduce his work activity and to leave Urania covers to Vicente Segrelles and Oscar Chichoni.

His last work for Urania is for N°1330 of 1998: in the meantime, Thole earned a robust fame as one of the greatest European book cover artists.

Thole died in 2000 in Cannobio, a town on the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy.