Friedrich Traffelet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Traffelet

Swiss painter and illustrator (1897-1954)

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1897

Place of Birth: Bern, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1954

Profession: illustrator, painter

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Friedrich Eduard Traffelet, popularly Fritz Traffelet (1897–1954) was a Bernese painter and illustrator. After studies in Zürich and Paris, he married Alice Rondi in 1921.
In the 1930s, Traffelet gained renown as a military painter and served in the Swiss Army during World War II from 1939 to 1945.
Done in a 19th-century style, his paintings and illustrations of soldierly life have become defining images of Switzerland in World War II. In the 1940s and 1950s, Traffelet also executed a wide range of portraits, landscape paintings and facade paintings.
They most often depict historic or traditional genre scenes, reflecting his generally conservative outlook.