Ali Mitgutsch

Ali Mitgutsch (born August 21, 1935 in Munich , born Alfons Mitgutsch ) is a German picture book author, illustrator and painter . The trained commercial artist is considered the father of hidden object books .

Life

As a child, Mitgutsch and his family were evacuated from Allied air raids in the Allgäu . After the end of the war he returned to Munich. He completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer and later studied at the graphic academy in Munich. The child psychologist Kurt Seelmann gave him the impetus in the 1960s to draw a special kind of children's books.

Mitgutsch then became known for his hidden object picture books for children, which combine many small everyday scenes in one large picture on each (double) page.

All around in my city (1968) is considered to be the first hidden object book in German-speaking countries.

Mitgutsch lives in his native Munich, which is where the inspiration for the Wimmel books come from.

Awards

• 1960 nomination for the German Youth Book Prize for Pepes Hut
• 1961 nomination for the German Youth Book Prize for Ulus adventurous trip to the northern lights
• 1962 Nico finds a treasure for the German Youth Book Prize
• 1969 German Youth Book Prize for the picture book All around in my city
• 1971 nomination for the German Youth Book Prize for Bei uns im Dorf
• 1972 nomination for the German Youth Book Prize for Come with us on the water
• 1978 List of honor Hans Christian Andersen Prize for everything to do with ships
• 2003 Schwabing Art Prize
• 2016 Ernst Hoferichter Prize
• 2018 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for a new genre and "an unmistakable illustration style"
• 2019 Upper Bavarian Culture Prize

plant

• with Ingmar Gregorzewski: Herzanzünder: My life as a child , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423280570 .

picture books

• "Pepes Hut" (1959)
• "Ulus adventurous journey" (1960 in the Munich picture book publishing house)
• "Nico finds a treasure" (1961)
• "All around in my city" (1968, German Youth Book Prize 1969 )
• "With us in the village" (1970)
• "Come to the water with me" (1971)
• "In the countryside"
• "All about the bike" (1975)
• "Around the Ship" (1977)
• "Here in the mountains" (1979)
• "What is swarming there?"
• "The Witch and the Seven Fexes"
• "Our Big City" (1988)
• "Book of Knights"
• "Angels in the workshop"
• "Departure of Santa Clauses"
• "My most beautiful hidden object book"
• "The Great Pirate Wimmelbook"
• "Everyone plays with"
• "My huge pirate hidden object book"
• "My gigantic Wimmel search book" (2010)
• “Fizzel builds a castle”, Otto Maier, Ravensburg, 1992, Kleine Ravensburger series
• "From grain to bread"

Web links

• Literature by and about Ali Mitgutsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ali Mitgutsch  in the German Digital Library
• rossipotti.de biography and catalog raisonné .
• Ali Mitgutsch tells an episode from his youth "Schwabinger Street Gang"
• In a world of its own , interview with Ali Mitgutsch, in: Friday , December 23, 2011.
• “I'll show you my city. How we live in Germany ”(2016) , brochure of the Hanns Seidel Foundation , illustrated with pictures by Mitgutsch from picture books published by Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Boris Berg: The Father of Wimmel Books - On the 80th birthday of Ali Mitgutsch ( Memento from August 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Bayerischer Rundfunk from August 21, 2015 ( YouTube )
2. ^ Hidden object inventor Ali Mitgutsch: Here he comes, the dreamer! , spiegel.de, article from August 13, 2015.
3. ↑ Magnus Klaue, On the Renaissance of Wimmel Books, in: FAZ No. 65, March 18, 2015, p. N3.
4. ↑ rossipotti.de: Ali Mitgutsch
5. ^ Muenchen.de: Ali Mitgutsch received the Ernst Hoferichter Prize 2016
6. ↑ o. V .: Wimmelbuch author: Order for Ali Mitgutsch , in: [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] of October 11, 2018, p. 17