Claude Lapointe (Author)
Claude Lapointe (born December 3, 1938 in Rémilly , Moselle department ) is a French illustrator for children's books .
He studied from 1962 to 1963 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy , then from 1963 to 1965 at the École des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg .
From 1970 to 1980 he worked for the French magazines Okapi and Bayard Presse . For Editions Gallimard , he illustrated works by Louis Pergaud ( War of the Buttons ), Jack London ( Call of the Wild ), Mark Twain ( The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ), and William Golding ( Lord of the Flies ) and by Pierre Gripari ( Contes de la rue Broca and Les Contes de la Folie Méricourt ).
Claude Lapointe is the founder of the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg.
Works
- Claude Lapointe, Sylvette Guindolet: My sketchbook. Learn to draw and paint . Bloomsbury Children's & Youth Books, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-5261-2 .
- Marc Porée (Ed.): Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer's Adventure . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-8067-4761-X .
- Louis Pergaud, Claude Lapointe: The War of the Buttons . Lentz, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-88010-052-7 .
- Petrina Stein, Claude Lapointe (illustrations): Peter Struwwel. Loosely based on Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter . Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7941-0144-8 .
Awards
- 1982: Grand Prix Graphique de Bologne
- 1983: Prix de la Fondation de France
Web links
- Literature by and about Claude Lapointe in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Lapointe, Claude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French illustrator for children's books |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rémilly , Moselle department |