Dieter Wiesmüller

Dieter Wiesmüller (* 1950 in Rotenburg (Wümme) ) is a German illustrator and children's book - author .

Life

Dieter Wiesmüller has lived in Hamburg since 1955 , where he also studied graphics , painting and illustration at the University of Applied Sciences for Design and graduated from Professor Oelke. He has been working here as a freelancer since 1975, primarily as a cover illustrator for the magazine “ Der Spiegel ”, but also for “ Stern ” and “ TransAtlantik ” as well as for children's book illustrations.

He has received several awards, including from the Art Directors Club Germany, in 1988 with the lynx of time and in 1990 with the 1st prize of the Troisdorf picture book prize for his picture story Come with, Moritz .

Dieter Wiesmüller was a lecturer at the Hamburg University of Design from 1982 to 1992.

Wiesmüller influenced, in addition to American illustrators and cartoonists , painters of the Renaissance , Romanticism and New Objectivity. He prefers to work with tempera , acrylic and watercolor techniques .

Works

Own works

• Come with me, Moritz , 1988/2008, Verlag Sauerländer
• Pernix, a small dinosaur in the primeval forest , 1992 Verlag Sauerländer, 2004 Carlsen Verlag
• Pin Kaiser and Fip Husar , 1997, Verlag Sauerländer
• Moment , 2002, Carlsen Verlag

Book illustrations (selection)

• Pipi, the pink monkey , 1995, text by Carlo Collodi , Carl Hanser Verlag
• Where the sun goes to sleep , 2000, text by Klaus Modick , Carlsen Verlag
• From the battle for Troy , 2003, text by Bernard Evslin , dtv / Carl Hanser Verlag
• The adventures of Odysseus , 2004, text by Bernard Evslin, dtv / Carl Hanser Verlag
• Das Nibelungenlied , 2006, text by Franz Fühmann , dtv / Carl Hanser Verlag
• Reineke Fuchs , 2008, text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Carl Hanser Verlag
• Der Taucher , 2009, text by Friedrich Schiller , Carlsen Verlag

Cover illustrations (selection)

• The Golden Compass , 1996, Philip Pullman , Carlsen Verlag
• The Magic Knife , 1997, Philip Pulmann, Carlsen Verlag
• The Amber Telescope 2001, Philip Pulmann, Carlsen Verlag
• The city of the wild gods , 2002, Isabel Allende , Carl Hanser Verlag

Exhibitions

• November 5, 2009 - December 31, 2010 Diving. The seas of pictures by Dieter Wiesmüller in the children's book house in the Altonaer Museum Hamburg
• May 19, 2011 - August 31, 2011 Illusions in the "Ute Claussen Gallery" Klein Flottbek, Hamburg
• April 7, 2011 - December 2011 "Boy! Boy!" in the children's book house in the Altonaer Museum Hamburg

literature

• Nora Luttmer: A sunken city and other seas of images . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt, Issue 5/2010, pp. 74–75 . Storck-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISSN 0948-9002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburg Children's Book House

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Wiesmüller in the catalog of the German National Library