During the next decade, both brothers began lucrative long-term working relationships with apparel manufactures including Interwoven Socks, Hartmarx, B. In 1900, Joe, Frank, and their sister Mary moved to New York City, then the center of the US commercial art, advertising and publishing industries. and younger brother Frank enrolled in the Académie Julian in Paris for a year, where they were exposed to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, and Alphonse Mucha, a leader in the French Art Nouveau movement. Īfter studying drawing and anatomy under John Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute, J. Weeks, for the book One Fair Daughter by Frank Frankfort Moore. That year, Leyendecker created his first poster, also for E.A. It featured one of his sketches, and two book covers he had illustrated, provided by E.A. Manz & Company, and his intention to study in Paris. In 1895, the April–September issue of The Inland Printer had an introduction to J.C. sought formal artistic training at the school of the Chicago Art Institute. Manz & Company, and completing his first commercial commission of 60 Bible illustrations for the Powers Brothers Company, J. After working in late adolescence for a Chicago engraving firm, J. In 1882, the Leyendecker family immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, where Elizabeth's brother Adam Ortseifen was vice-president of the successful McAvoy Brewing Company. A sister, Mary Augusta, the third and last child, arrived after the family emigrated to America. He was the first-born son his brother Francis Xavier was born three years later. Leyendecker (called 'J.C.' or 'Joe') was born on Main Montabaur, Germany to Peter Leyendecker (1838–1916) and Elizabeth Ortseifen Leyendecker (1845–1905).
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