Annegert Fuchshuber

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Annegert Fuchshuber (born May 6, 1940 in Magdeburg ; † March 17, 1998 in Augsburg ) was a German illustrator .

Live and act

Annegert Fuchshuber grew up in Halle . Even as a child she wanted to become a “picture bookmaker”. In 1951 she moved with her family to Bavaria, where she made her home in Augsburg in 1953 . After graduating from high school in 1960, she attended the Werkkunstschule Augsburg , did a one-year typesetting internship and then worked in a Munich advertising agency.

From 1964 she worked as a freelance illustrator. In 1968 she illustrated her first book. She published the first book, The Most Beautiful Star in the World , which she designed and told alone in 1969. At Thienemann Verlag alone , which published it last, the total worldwide circulation of the picture books it published there was more than 700,000 copies, which in turn were translated into 15 languages.

She has received several awards, including a. 1984 with the German Youth Literature Prize . After her death, a street in Augsburg was named after her, the Annegert-Fuchshuber-Weg in the Kriegshaber district .

Works (selection)

Texts & illustrations

Illustrations

Awards

Posthumous honors

Individual evidence

  1. thienemann.de short biography of Anne Gert Fuchshuber in Thienemann Verlag
  2. augsburg.de ( Memento from November 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Evidence in the Official Gazette of the City of Augsburg , number 33, August 17, 2012, page 205; in PDF file on page 5 of 7