Bernhard Prinz (cartoonist)
Bernhard Prinz (born February 26, 1975 in Munich , Germany ) is a German artist , draftsman , sculptor and caricaturist .
Life
As the son of a portrait painter and a lithographer, Bernhard Prinz came into contact with art at an early age. His style he taught self-taught at. After leaving school, he spent over a year in Spain , where he lived from caricature and portrait painting on promenades and in squares. Back in Munich he got his first illustration orders for the Playboy , Focus , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Handelsblatt and Stern as well as Weltwoche from Switzerland. He also illustrated music CDs and audio books. For the movie Ballermann 6 , he designed the movie poster and the Gerhard Schröder caricature for the Gerd show .
Bernhard Prinz lives and works in Munich.
Reviews
The art critic and curator Elmar Zorn describes the art of Bernhard Prinz as a "satirical theater of painting ... at the eye level of the great painters, technically and artistically no less brilliant than the so-called classics"; the Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: "Colorful, bizarre and profound".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Big heads and stoners. (No longer available online.) Süddeutsche Zeitung , archived from the original on April 18, 2010 ; Retrieved April 16, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, II, M./L. 2007.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Prinz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernhard Prinz's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prince, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist and caricaturist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich , Germany |