Lothar Meggendorfer was a German

Germany

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 illustrator

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 and writer

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 known for his superb pop-up book

Pop-up book

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He was first published in 1862 in the Fliegende Blätter, an illustrated comic weekly, and from 1868 in the bi-weekly Münchener Bilderbogen. He also illustrated Neues Struwwelpeterbuch with text by Julius Beck, published by J.F. Schreiber in the 1890s.

Every year, the Movable Book Society awards a pop-up book a prize named after Meggendorfer.