Artist

Thomas Nast

1840–1902 · born in Landau in der Pfalz · died in Guayaquil

Thomas Nast was an American cartoonist born in Landau, Germany, in 1840. He moved to New York as a child and became famous in Harper's Weekly for his political cartoons, and is credited with creating the Republican elephant and the modern Santa Claus. He died in Ecuador in 1902, where he served as US consul.