Andreas Prüstel

Andreas Prüstel (born September 10, 1951 in Leipzig ; † August 23, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German collagist and cartoonist .

Life

Andreas Prüstel was a trained concrete worker , but between 1968 and 1985 he also worked as a track builder , stoker , newspaper delivery man and technical and cartographic draftsman . During this time he made collages on a regular basis, but his breakthrough as an artist was initially denied. For example, his admission to the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art failed because Prüstel's works, which were strongly influenced by surrealism , were too “ individual ” for the professors . From 1976 to 1977 he then attended evening school at the University of Graphic Art and Book Art in Leipzig. After several exhibitions , he was finally allowed to join the Association of Fine Artists in 1988 and was thus entitled to officially work as a freelance artist in the GDR .

Andreas Prüstel had his first publications after the fall of the Wall . Since then, Prüstel's collages and cartoons have appeared regularly in the Berlin street newspaper strassenfeger , in Eulenspiegel and in Zitty .

Andreas Prüstel leaves two daughters.

Works

• Cold cuts , Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 1992
• Modern age. Collages , Kolog-Verlag, 1993
• Land in sight! , Dietz Verlag Berlin, 1994
• Ordinary bullshit - cartoons that life writes . Schaltzeit Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941362-20-8

Editing

• Greetings from the GDR , with Rolf Lonkowski . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 1989
• Terrible pictures. Masterpieces of black humor , with Rolf Lonkowski. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 1989
• Even more terrible pictures , with Rolf Lonkowski. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 2000
• Piggy pictures , with Rolf Lonkowski. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 2001
• Poor , but sexy , with Rolf Lonkowski. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 2007

Prices

• 1987 GDR satirical award
• 1988 First prize at the Greiz Caricature Biennale
• 1990 Special prize at the Greiz Caricature Biennale
• 1992 Media Prize from the University of Leipzig
• 1996 Second Prize at the International Cartoon Festival Schwarzenberg
• 1998 bronze medal from the Art Directors Club Germany
• 2007 third place in the caricature award of the German newspapers

literature

• Robert Gernhardt : How to put together what was not meant for each other . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 22, 2000; about Prüstel

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Prüstel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andreas Prüstel via Cartooncommerz
• A life not only for the "street sweeper" . The cartoonist Andreas Prüstel .
• I keep going until my hand rots off Andreas Prüstel on Andreas Prüstel (original text published in Berliner strassenfeger )