{{Short description|Bernese painter and illustrator}} thumb|Traffelet 1942 [[Image:Junkerngasse 22, Berne.jpg|thumb|Friedrich Traffelet's atelier on Junkerngasse 22, Bern.]]
'''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.
==References== * {{SIKART|4026315|Fritz Traffelet}}
==External links== * [http://www.artnet.com/artist/654575/friedrich-traffelet.html Artnet entry] for Friedrich Traffelet
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Traffelet, Friedrich}} Category:1897 births Category:1954 deaths Category:20th-century Swiss painters Category:Swiss male painters Category:Artists from Bern Category:Swiss military personnel Category:20th-century Swiss male artists