1. Nora Krug is an associate professor of Illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
11 Facts About Nora Krug
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Nora Krug returned to Germany briefly to study Visual Communication at Berlin University of the Arts but flew to North America to study in the School of Visual Arts's MFA Illustration program, majoring in Illustration as a Visual Essay.
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Nora Krug's thesis was a reinterpretation of "Little Red Riding Hood", consisting of four mini-books, each of which focuses on a different character from that fairy tale.
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Nora Krug graduated with her Master's of Fine Arts degree in 2004, and the book series was added to the US Library of Congress.
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Nora Krug published three nonfiction comics for the publication that recounted the stories of US Army Sergeant and defector Charles Robert Jenkins, Swiss explorer and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, and Swiss artist Adolf Wolfli.
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Nora Krug received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2014 Sendak Fellowship.
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Nora Krug earned a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators for her book Shadow Atlas, an Encyclopedia of Ghosts.
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Nora Krug said she was deeply disturbed to find Nazi propaganda in her uncle's grade school exercise books.
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Nora Krug combined her knowledge and research into a graphic memoir titled Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home.
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Nora Krug later stated she illustrated and wrote her family story as a way to counteract the negative stereotypes she encountered in New York and inform American readers.
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In March 2023, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts presented "Nora Krug: Belonging", an exhibition of visual art from the book, which would run through June.