Birger Thorin Grave

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Birger Thorin Grave , also Birger T. Grave , (born May 22, 1952 in Bremen ) is a German illustrator and comic artist.

biography

Grave completed an apprenticeship as a graphic artist in Bremen from 1968 to 1969. From 1970 to 1974 he studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Hamburg with a focus on illustration ( Wilhelm M. Busch ), free painting, conception and manual printing techniques. In 1974 he co-founded the children's painting school in Bremen, where he also taught until 1976. Subsequently, Grave worked as a layouter and illustrator for the agencies Economia (Hamburg), Gall (Lüneburg) and Eichenherr Werbung (Hamburg) until 1981.

From 1974 to 1978 he had solo exhibitions in Lübeln near Lüchow , Altenmedingen , Lüneburg and Hamburg and a group exhibition in Bremen. In 1981 he began his work as a freelance illustrator and story painter and as a lecturer at the HTK for illustration, comics and storyboard , today Hamburg Technical Art School , where he still teaches today.

In 2001 he founded the Hamburg Art Department for comics , illustration , storyboard and graphic design with three former students from HTK-Hamburg .

Works

  • Homage to John Lennon (1981, writer & reader , 3 illustrations)
  • Der Raabe - Edgar Allen Poe (1982, Factory, 3 illustrations in Der Raabe , 8 illustrations in Der Untergang des Haus Usher )
  • Erehwon - The Journey to Somewhere (1982–83 writer & reader)
  • Traces of the Gods (1985–90, 5 volumes, Carlsen Verlag , with Rafael Solá Ferrer)
  • Mirko's Adventure Journeys in Time (1985–90, Heinrich Bauer Verlag)
  • 1991–98: Various commissioned works, a. a. for the Hamburger Morgenpost, private individuals; as well as various exhibitions.
  • Gran Paradiso (1999, storyboard)
  • Fuck (1999, storyboard, production and design)
  • Kid City (1999, storyboard, production and design)
  • Telephone book (1999, production and design)
  • The Girl and the Gnome (1999, production and design)
  • Klaus Störtebeker (1999, storyboard, production and design)
  • The woman from Checkpoint Charlie (2001, storyboard, production and design)
  • Solo exhibition at Galerie Helmers (2008, Badenweiler-Lipburg, project: Thannhäuser / Fliegender Holländer)

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personal data
SURNAME Grave, Birger Thorin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grave, Birger T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen