Agi lamb

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Magdalena Agnes "Agi" Lamm (born June 7, 1914 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died August 25, 1996 in Buenos Aires ) was a Hungarian-Argentine graphic artist and illustrator.

Life

Magdalena Agnes Lamm grew up as the only child of a landowner in the Puszta . After attending school in Budapest for a short time, she moved with her mother to Belgrade in the late 1920s , where she was taught by the sculptor Petrus Pallavicini (1886–1956). In 1930 she began her training in the fashion class of Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and worked as a set designer in Viennese cabarets. After Austria's annexation in 1938 , Lamm emigrated to Argentina via France and Bolivia , where she arrived in 1940.

She worked as a graphic designer in Buenos Aires under the pseudonym Agi . She published music books with the pianist Rita Kurzmann-Leuchter , who also emigrated . In 1945 she received first prize at the “Festival Nacional Infantil” for the illustrations for the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen . She also illustrated children's books for the Abril publishing house for the emigrated Susi Hochstimm (born 1920). Agi also found recognition with the artistic and handicraft implementation of Indian folk art from the Jujuy region .

Illustrated books (selection)

  • Brothers Grimm : Hansel y Gretel . Buenos Aires: April, 1948
  • Hans Christian Andersen : La sirenetta . Milan: Mondadori, 1950 (it)
  • Francisco Espínola : Saltoncito . Buenos Aires: Ed. Univ. de Buenos Aires, 1967
  • Rita Kurzmann-Leuchter: El pequeño violinista rondas, canciones, danzas populares argentinas arregladas para la enseñanza primaria para violín con acompañamiento de otro violín o de piano . Buenos Aires: Ricordi Americana, 1942
  • Rita Kurzmann-Leuchter : Canciones Infantiles Europeas . Buenos Aires: Ricordi Americana, 1950. (3rd ed.)
  • Rita Kurzmann-Leuchter: Canciones de navidad . Buenos Aires Ricordi Americana, 1998
  • Una aventura entre las flores . Buenos Aires: April, 1946
  • Yo soy la familia Quiquiriqui . Buenos Aires: April, 1949
  • Susi Hochstimm: Yo soy el indiecito . Buenos Aires: April, 1950
  • Susi Hochstimm: Yo soy el osito de juguete . Buenos Aires: April, 1950

literature

  • Zlata Fuss Phillips: German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933–1950. Biographies and Bibliographies , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11569-5 , pp. 21-24.
  • Ursula Seeber [Hrsg.], Austrian Exile Library: Small Allies , Picus-Verl., Vienna, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 .
  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , pp. 139f.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 771.
  • Susanne Blumesberger: Handbook of the Austrian authors of books for children and young people . Vienna: Böhlau, 2014, p. 634f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susi Hochstimm, in: Ursula Seeber: Small Allies , 1998, p. 129f.
personal data
SURNAME Lamb, Agi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agnes Lamm, Magdalena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Argentine graphic designer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1996
Place of death Buenos Aires