Étienne Delessert (illustrator)
Étienne Delessert (born January 4, 1941 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss author, painter, illustrator , graphic artist and draftsman who has been working as a children's book author and children's book illustrator in Europe and the USA since the 1960s .
Life
From 1959 to 1974 Delessert worked as a commercial artist in Switzerland, Paris and New York City , USA. In 1967 his first book Sans fin la fête was published (English: The Endless Party , German: The long journey of the animals ). Other successful children's books emerged from a collaboration with Eugène Ionesco and Jean Piaget . To date, Delessert has illustrated over 80 books, some of which have been translated into 14 languages.
In the 1970s Delessert produced a children's series Yok-Yok for Swiss television . This series was published in 1979 by the Gallimard publishing house in Paris as a comic strip . In 1993 the series was reissued by the US publisher Creative Education from Mankato , Minnesota . In 2011 the Gallimard jeunesse publishing house followed with a new edition in French.
Delessert is both a Swiss and a US citizen and lives with his family in both Lakeville, Connecticut, and Lausanne.
Honourings and prices
- 1979: Badge of the Biennal of Illustrations Bratislava , Bratislava , then Czechoslovakia .
- 1981: Premio Grafico at the World Children's Book Fair in Bologna , Italy.
- 1989: another Premio Grafico .
- a total of thirteen gold and twelve silver medals from the American Society of Illustrators .
- 1996: Hamilton King Award .
- 2010: in the final selection for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize .
Publications
- Illustrations
- Anne van der Essen : Yok-Yok. 12 parts. Middelhauve, Cologne 1979 to 1981.
- Anne van der Essen: The mouse and what remains of it: an environmental book for children . Middelhauve, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7876-9680-6 .
- Anne van der Essen: The Mouse and Noise: An Environment Book for Children . Middelhauve, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-7876-9500-1 .
- Eugène Ionesco: Stories for Children Under Three . German by Herbert Asmodi .
- Story number 1, 3rd edition. Middelhauve, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-7876-9170-7 .
- Story number 2, Middelhauve, Cologne 1971.
- Eugène Ionesco: Dad, tell me a story . Middelhauve, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7876-9760-8 .
- Adrienne Soutter-Perrot: The water: where? Why? When? How? . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-458-04894-4 .
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Jacques Chessex : Des cinq sens.
- Translated into German by Marcel Schwander : The five senses. Roth and Sauter, Denges-Lausanne 1983.
- Autobiography
- L'Ours bleu. Mémoires d'un créateur d'images . Slatkine Éditions, Geneva 2015, ISBN 978-2-832106648 .
- In German language
- The long journey of the animals . Büchler, Wabern 1969.
- with Jean Piaget: Then a stone fell on the mouse's head and so it began to discover the world . Translated by Gert Loschütz . Middelhauve, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-7876-9360-2 .
- Retelling
- Beauty and the Beast: a French fairy tale . Retold by Ludwig Askenazy . Middelhauve, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7876-9181-2 .
Exhibitions
- 1975: Retrospective, Musée des Arts décoratifs , Paris.
- 1991: Palazzo delle Esposizioni , Rome.
- 1997: Olympic Museum , Lausanne. Later Museum of the School of Visual Arts , New York City.
- 2013: Étienne Delessert: Plein Cadre , École Estienne , Paris.
literature
- Les dessins d'Étienne Delessert . Editions Bertil Galland, Lausanne 1974.
- Étienne Delessert: Les affiches. Gallimard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-07-054996-8 .
- Étienne Delessert . Delpire, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-85107-247-4 .
- Étienne Delessert: Plein Cadre . Exhibition catalog. Gallimard, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-07-065338-6 .
Web links
- DELESSERT official website
- Françoise Jaunin: Delessert, Etienne. In: Sikart
- Literature by and about Étienne Delessert in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delessert, Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss illustrator and author, also of children's books |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |