Eduard Buk Ulreich was born in 1889 in Guns, Austria/Hungary. He was a painter, sculptor, muralist, and magazine illustrator. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy. In the 1920s, he lived in New York City and worked as a general illustrator for books and magazines. His wife, Nura, was an author and illustrator of children's books and an art instructor. He died in 1966 in San Francisco.
From the guide to the Eduard Buk Ulreich Collection, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])