Dietrich Ebert

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Dietrich Ebert (born October 25, 1948 in Sankt Peter-Ording ) is a German illustrator and graphic designer .

Life

Dietrich Ebert did an apprenticeship as a lithographer , trained as a graphic draftsman and studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

After graduating in 1977, he went freelance as an illustrator and graphic designer. From 1978 he was a brief lecturer at the University of Education in Reutlingen . From 1980 to 1982 he held a professorship for graphic design at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . Ebert works primarily in the field of advertising graphics and book illustration .

Dietrich Ebert works for advertising agencies such as Leonhard & Kern ( Stuttgart ), TWBA Werbeagentur GmbH ( Frankfurt am Main ) and GGK ( Düsseldorf ), as well as for industrial companies such as IBM , AEG and Lacoste .

For the car company Mercedes-Benz , Dietrich Ebert designed a number of posters with achievements from the company's history in 1986 for the company's 100th birthday. He also worked as an illustrator for Der Spiegel magazine.

Since 1984 Dietrich Ebert has also been responsible for the overall artistic design of the Fantasy Literature program area at Klett-Cotta Verlag in Stuttgart. The first cover that Ebert designed for the publisher was the one for Charles G. Finney's Doctor Laos Great Circus (1935, German 1984). From then until 2005 he designed the covers for works by authors such as Tad Williams ( Otherland ), TH White (including The King of Camelot ), Anthony Burgess (including The Prince of Phantoms ) and JRR Tolkien (including The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings and News from Middle-earth ). 1985 appeared with The Tolkien Calendar 1986 - Views of Middle-earth, a calendar with twelve illustrations of Tolkien's fantasy world.

In Ebert's works, his preference for lithography becomes evident, as well as experimenting with collages and different printing processes . Albrecht Ade ascribes to him a great desire for a wealth of details and detailed elaboration of every element of a graphic.

Dietrich Ebert is married to the studied textile designer Irmgard Ebert, with whom he also runs the joint office for advertising graphics. The couple lives in Reutlingen-Sondelfingen .

Works (selection)

Cover illustration / design

  • Charles G. Finney: Doctor Laos Great Circus ( The Circus of Dr. Lao ). 1st edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-95165-2 .
  • Anthony Burgess: The Prince of Phantoms ( Earthly Powers ) . 1st edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-95215-2 .
  • TH White: Der König auf Camelot ( The Once and Future King ) . 7th edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-93713-7 . (four volumes).
  • JRR Tolkien: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ( The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ). 1st edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-95009-5 .
  • JRR Tolkien: Good dragons are rare. 1st edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-93064-7 .
  • JRR Tolkien: The History of the Great War of the Ring. 1st edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-93320-4 .
  • JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit ( The Hobbit ). 1st edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-93805-2 .
  • JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings ( The Lord of the Rings ). 1st edition of the new translation. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-93222-4 (one volume) & ISBN 3-608-93544-4 (three volumes).
  • Tad Williams: Otherland. 1st edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-93425-1 . (Single volumes 1997–2004, four volumes).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Stefan Aust, Stefan Kiefer: The Art of SPIEGEL: Cover illustrations from five decades . teNeues, Kempen 2004, ISBN 978-3-8327-9000-4 .
  2. ↑ a b c Renate Ulmer: showroom: Dietrich Ebert . In: novum - World of Graphic Design . No. 2 . Stiebner Verlag, Munich 2000, p. 54 .
  3. ^ A b Albrecht Ade: Dietrich Ebert (novum junior design) . In: novum - commercial graphics . No. 9 . Stiebner Verlag, Munich 1980, p. 32 .
  4. ↑ Anonymous: How do you design a book cover? (Interview with Dietrich Ebert) . In: JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben GmbH, Stuttgart (Hrsg.): TolkienTimes - magazine from Middle Earth . Fall 2003.
  5. ^ Herbert Lechner: Dietrich & Irmgard Ebert . In: novum - commercial graphics . No. 64 . Stiebner Verlag, Munich 1993, p. 31 .
personal data
SURNAME Ebert, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Peter-Ording