Hilarius (Larry, Larinka) Bookbinder (born: Copenhagen 1920s/30s? – deceased: Chicago 1970s/80s?) was born into a Jewish family in Copenhagen and grew up in Hungary and Germany. Initially an abstract painter in the vein of Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky, his later work was influenced by the Chicago Imagists after moving to the American Midwest in the mid-1960s. None of his early work has been found, but his late paintings are an amalgam of European Realism, New York School Modernism and Chicago Imagism.