Annie Vallotton

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Annie Vallotton (born February 21, 1915 in Lausanne , † December 28, 2013 in Paris ) was a Swiss-French artist and illustrator . She was best known for her illustration of the Good News Bible .

Life

Annie Vallotton's mother came from Alsace . Her father was the writer Benjamin Vallotton , cousin of the artist Félix Vallotton . Her brother Pierre, like her father and grandfather, studied theology and worked as a Reformed pastor in the church of Saint-Dié . Together with her sister Gritou, she documented her war experiences between 1939 and 1944 under the title C'etait au jour le jour in diaries , which are now regarded as valuable historical evidence.

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Annie Vallotton began her artistic career by painting frescoes on the walls of refugee camps in Toulouse during the Second World War . There she also met the resistance fighter Berty Albrecht , who had been baptized by Vallotton's grandfather. In 1966 she was hired by Eugene Nida to illustrate the Good News Bible . Her line drawings became world famous and reprinted over 70 billion times; No other artist has so far achieved such an edition.

With her drawings she wanted to encourage reading the Bible. She made some drawings 80 to 90 times before she was satisfied with them. She wanted to keep the presentation as simple as possible in order to get to the core of the truth that the images were supposed to express.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sally Palmer: Gritou and Annie Vallotton: Refugees, Reality and Radicalization - Diary Entries from June 1940 France.
  2. ↑ BBC News: The best-selling artist of all time.
  3. ↑ Stick Figure Theology: Annie Vallotton.
  4. ^ American Bible Society News : Remembering Annie Vallotton.
personal data
SURNAME Vallotton, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-French artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2013
Place of death Paris