Bengt Fosshag

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Bengt Fosshag , actually Bengt Foßhag , (* 1940 ) is a German graphic designer and illustrator . He became known, among other things, for the Pink Elephant from DB advertising in the 1980s and, more recently, for his book illustrations for a successful series of crime short stories.

Life

Bengt Fosshag (Foßhag) grew up with his aunt in the Vogelsberg region together with his sister and two cousins . His father died in the war and his mother died two years later. His grandfather, the Königstadt teacher and local researcher Adam Fosshag (1879–1956), awakened his enthusiasm for foreign continents and especially for Africa . Fosshag's artistic talent was recognized and promoted by his uncle, a hobby painter and member of a Frankfurt artist group. He has been based in Rüsselsheim since he started school.

Fosshag studied graphic design at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach am Main . After completing his studies, he worked in advertising departments and studios in Wiesbaden and Offenbach and as an automobile designer at Opel in Rüsselsheim. He then worked as an art director at various advertising agencies .

Fosshag has been working as a freelance graphic designer, graphic designer and illustrator since 1983, and for many years he ran his own studio in Frankfurt am Main . He created numerous illustrations and vignettes , such as for newspapers , magazines and other publications. He also created book illustrations for several books , such as children's books as well as for a number of anthologies of the editorial duo Andrea C. Busch and Almuth Heuner with crime - short stories . The crime series published by Hildesheimer Gerstenberg Verlag was well received by the public, not least because of Fosshag's multiple award-winning illustrations. The series was partly published in its eighth edition and individual books in the series were also published in Poland , Estonia and Switzerland , as translations into French or into the respective national language.

His clients include newspaper publishers such as the FAZ (vignettes for articles in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung ), book publishers such as Gerstenberg Verlag, Verlag Herder and Eichborn Verlag , as well as institutions and companies such as the Rüsselsheim adult education center, the nature youth in the Nature Conservation Union ( NAJU ) and the Frankfurter Volksbank .

In addition, he created freelance work as a graphic designer and graphic artist. In his hometown of Rüsselsheim he had exhibitions at the Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, in the Rathaus rotunda and in the Opel factory hall "A1". Fosshag is involved in the cultural field in Rüsselsheim and in the royal cities that were incorporated into Rüsselsheim in 1956 ; Among other things, he is one of the initiators of the “illust_ratio” series, has overall responsibility for the illustrations for the “Rüsselsheimer Edition” and is co-editor of the “Königstädter Chronik”.

Fosshag received several awards and prizes for his work. His best-known illustration is the pink elephant , which Deutsche Bahn used to advertise rail travel in the 1980s ( Pink Weeks ) .

Fosshag is also known as a collector of tribal art from Africa and Asia. Among other things, he collects exhibits such as couscous vessels from Tunisia , watch lions from Sri Lanka and lute instruments from East India , sarindas and single-stringed dhodro banams , on which he also published specialist articles.

Bengt Fosshag lives in Rüsselsheim am Main, where he also has his studio today.

exhibition

The Rietberg Museum in Zurich is showing from September 5, 2014 to August 9, 2015 the exhibition "SOUND | BODY" with stringed instruments from India. The exhibition shows around 80 of the most beautiful instruments from the Fosshag collection.

Awards (selection)

  • 2008: Culture Prize of the City of Rüsselsheim
  • German Designer Club Prize. (in silver), from DDC (for the book illustrations in the Christmas book . Easy and good ) 2003.
  • 2002: Art Directors Prize (in gold), from the Art Directors Club (for the book illustrations in Mord im Grünen )
  • German Designer Club Prize. (in silver), by DDC (for the book illustrations in Mord im Grünen ) 2002.
  • 1988: Silver Lion , Cannes
  • 1985: EFFIE (in gold), from GWA (for the pink elephant in DB advertising)
  • 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983: Golden Award of Montreux , Montreux (each for vignettes for Wirtschaftswoche )

Book illustrations

  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (Ed.): Mord im Grünen. 4th edition. (1st edition of the extended edition), Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8369-2574-7 .
  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (ed.): Murder in the wine cellar . Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8369-2582-2 .
  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (ed.): Murder between knife & fork. 8th edition. (5th edition of the extended edition), Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8369-2522-8 .
  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (Ed.): Mord im Grünen. 1st edition. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-8067-2519-5 .
  • Almuth Heuner (Ed.): Murder in the galley. 1st edition. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-8067-2562-4 .
  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (ed.): Murder between salmon and tinsel . Adult and revised New edition, Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-8067-2563-2 . (Formerly: Murder for Dessert. 2003)
  • Bengt Fosshag: Darwin Islands. The Scheufelen sketchbook based on an idea by Bengt Fosshag and Peter Hessler . Agency for Corporate Communication, Frankfurt am Main 2003, DNB 970103190 . ( Cartoons )
  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (Ed.): Murder for dessert. 1st edition. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-8067-2542-X .
  • Wolfram Hänel : The day on which teacher Roth disappeared. A case for Paul and Princess . Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-8067-4927-2 .
  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (ed.): Murder between knife & fork. 1st edition. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-8067-2522-5 .
  • Andrea C. Busch, Almuth Heuner (Ed.): Murder on arrival. 1st edition. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-8067-2506-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anja Trieschmann: The art of conveying with a pencil.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Echo-Online . January 8, 2009 (accessed September 10, 2009).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de  
  2. ↑ a b c biographical information in: Cornelia von Wrangel: Bengt Fosshag. On the strange islands of prosperity. In: FAZ Rhein-Main-Zeitung . August 12, 2003 (accessed September 10, 2009).
  3. ↑ Bengt Fosshag: My grandfather - Bengt Fosshag remembers. In: Felix Weilbächer, Karl Walther, Wolfgang Einsiedel (ed.): Royal cities from the Ice Age to the modern age . Media-Konzept-Verlag, Rüsselsheim-Königstädten 2004, ISBN 3-9809940-2-3 .
  4. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Enclosure: illust_ratio 3 Rüsselsheim, October 2010.
  5. ↑ See illustrations by Anke Feuchtenberger and Bengt Fosshag in the Rüsselsheim Art Association. From July 14th to August 6th, 2006 at the Kunstverein Rüsselsheim (accessed on September 10th, 2009).
  6. ↑ a b See various articles and press reports in the illust_ratio press review brochure . ( Memento of January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) published by the Rüsselsheim Art Association and the City of Rüsselsheim am Main ( PDF file; accessed on September 10, 2009).
  7. ↑ Madeleine Reckmann: The thought picker. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 11, 2009 (accessed September 10, 2009).
  8. ↑ Bengt Fosshag: The Sarinda and their relatives . www.bengtfosshag.de, published by the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1997 ( PDF file accessed on September 23, 2011; 6.2 MB).
  9. ^ Preview of the Rietberg Museum
personal data
SURNAME Fosshag, Bengt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fosshag, Bengt (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1940