Elton Krafft - Artist Info

About Elton Krafft

  • Biography

    The following information was submitted in November of 2006 by Edward Bentley:

    Elton George Krafft (1914 - 2001)

    Krafft was born January 15, 1914, in Elkhart, Indiana, and received his artistic training at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Milwaukee he ran his own advertising studio for a number of years. He served with the Army Corp of Engineers during World War II in the South Pacific. He had a one-man show of his war work at the Pentagon after his return from the Pacific. On September 10, 1945, he married Olga Kucera, whom he met at the Layton School of Art.

    He joined Cream City Outdoor Advertising Co., Milwaukee (which became Naegele, Hanson, and Foster &...

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