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Such is the power of Sebastian Kruger's work - to bring personalities alive on paper. The 43-year-old German illustrator has had a career of superlatives, illustrating for many of the high circulation magazines of the world - Rolling Stone, USA Today, Playboy, L'Espresso, Der Spiegel, Stern and others. (more) |
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"People like it or hate it," Kruger said during an interview from Germany. "Some people think I'm mad and should see a doctor." (more) |
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Having made a profession out of taking apart the features of his contemporaries, the young artist, who was born in the Lower Saxony town of Hamelin in 1963, has attained to a certain degree of celebrity and fame himself. (more) |
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Kruger puts his fascination with the Stones down to his interest in "faces you can't see at first", and has met the band many times since he began painting them. He found Mick very cool, Keith very warm (he promised to sit for Kruger soon) and made a firm friend in Ronnie "we share the same hobbies, painting and, er, yeah."(more) |
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His work often turns his famous subjects into figures of fun, yet they are still appreciated and collected by some of Hollywood's aristocracy. (more) |
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He says he did just that with his caricature of Marilyn Monroe. "She was the hardest one. I just couldn't seem to get her expression until I tried 13 times," he says. (more) |
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It's impossible to express the facts more consistently. Sebastian Kruger. Shooting Star among the world's caricaturists has no intention of being easy on his victims when skewering them on his drawing board. (more)
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