Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo, April 2005

Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941 in Lima , Peru ) is an American illustrator of Peruvian origin.

Life

Boris Vallejo, born in Lima as the son of a lawyer , emigrated to the USA after graduating from the National School of Fine Arts in 1964 , where he still lives today. Vallejo has become famous above all for fantasy paintings, which primarily depict lightly clad, muscular heroes and warriors. Models and role models are often bodybuilders . His pictures adorned numerous calendars, movie posters and book covers. He is married to the artist Julie Bell .

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vallejo illustrated the US reissue of the Gor series by the author John Norman by Ballantine Books.

In 1979 he received the British Fantasy Award for The Amazing Princess and Her Pet .

Works

• The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo , 1980 (German Fantasy by Boris. An illustrated book , Rastatt 1980, ISBN 3-8118-2008-7 )
• together with Doris Vallejo: Mirage (German Mirage , Linden 1983, ISBN 3-88631-146-5 )
• as illustrator: In the realm of fantasy , Munich 1984 ( ISBN 3-453-02032-4 )
• Fantasy (German Fantasy , Linden 1985, ISBN 3-88631-189-9 )
• Fantasy Art Techniques , 1985
• Dreams. The Art of Boris Vallejo , 1999 (German: The Dreams of Boris Vallejo , Art fantastix No. 4, Rastatt approx. 2001; reprint under the title The Art of Boris Vallejo , Art Fantastix Platinum (Volume 3), Rastatt 2002, ISBN 3 -931670-73-2 )
• together with Julie Bell and Nigel Suckling : Twin Visions (German Twin Visions , Art fantastix: Select (6), Rastatt 2003, ISBN 3-931670-56-2 )
• Hindsight. His Photographic Art (dt. Hindsight. His Photographic Art , Art fotografix No. 1, Rastatt 2003, ISBN 3-936882-89-4 )

Web links

Commons : Boris Vallejo  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Literature by and about Boris Vallejo in the catalog of the German National Library