Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky

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Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky

Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky ( Russian Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский / Fyodor Stepanowitsch Roschankowski ; * December 24, 1891 in Mitava , Russian Empire ; †  October 12, 1970 in Bronxville , New York ), also known as Rojan, was an emigrated Russian illustrator. Rojan is known for his illustrations of children's books and his erotic drawings.

Life

Rojankovsky was born in Mitawa in the Russian Empire , in what is now Jelgava in Latvia . His father was a teacher and worked as a university administrator, a job that brought him here and there. So Rojan's sister was born in Kishinev , which then became Romanian. One brother was from Odessa and consequently Ukrainian and "little Russian", the other from Moscow and therefore "big Russian". The second sister was born in Estonia , so there were five different countries of birth in the family. Rojan spent some of his school days in Reval Tallinn , the scenic surroundings of which he was very impressed.

“Two big events decided the course of my childhood. I was taken to a zoo and saw the most wonderful creatures on earth: bears, tigers, monkeys, reindeer, and at the height of my excitement I was given a set of colored pencils. Of course, I immediately began to depict the animals that caught my imagination. When my brothers came home on vacation - they went to school in the capital - I tried to imitate their drawings and paintings. "

Rojanowski completed his artistic training for two years at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and then served as an officer in the Russian army until 1917 during the First World War . Sketches he made about the war were printed in art magazines. During the revolution he illustrated children's books for the Ukrainian People's Republic . In 1919, Rojan was recruited into the White Army and ended his military career in Poland behind barbed wire.

In 1925 he went to France and studied with Esther Averill. An early work from 1931, probably his first, are illustrations for the adventures of Daniel Boone . In Paris, alongside other erotic book illustrations, the Idylle Printaniere portfolio was anonymously created , an erotic encounter in 30 colored lithographs, which was soon identified as being by Rojan and which some consider his main work. Richard Bocci dates the portfolio to 1934 in his foreword to a new edition as Spring Romance. Parisian spring romance. Idyllic Printaniere . Rojan's first animal figures were also created in France, the Scaf seal , the squirrel Panache and the wild duck Plouf .

A steep career as an illustrator began when he emigrated to America at the beginning of the Second World War . He illustrated more than 100 books, most of which were about animals and nature. Rojankovsky also wrote himself, e.g. B. The Big Fat Book of Animals , published in France in 1951 and in the USA in 1952. In 1956 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for the picture book Frog Went A-Courtin ' , retold by John Langstaff . Rojankovsky died in Bronxville , NY in 1970 .

His work was shown in 1998 in Villeurbanne , Cavaillon and Blois .

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The German National Library only lists a fraction of his books:

  • Reynier, Marguerite: Animal Families. Frankfurt a. M.: Metzner, 1949
  • Rojankovsky, Feodor: Colorful animal stories. Stuttgart, Zurich: Delphin-Verlag, 1973
  • Rojankovsky, Feodor: Animals in the forest. Stuttgart, Zurich: Delphin-Verlag, 1976
  • Krinsley, Jeanette: The Trip to the Other Mountain. Reinbek near Hamburg: Carlsen, 1976

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Illustrator's Page ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Biographical information about Rojankovsky @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thesantis.com
  2. ↑ Bertha Mahony Miller and Eiinor Whitney Field, editors, CaIdecott Medal books: 1938-1957, Horn Book, 1957
  3. ^ Lee Kingman and others, compilers, Illustrators of Children's Books: 1957-1966, Horn Book, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Rojankovsky, Feodor Stepanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович (Russian spelling); Roschankowski, Fyodor Stepanowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitawa , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1970
Place of death Bronxville , New York