Florentine Joop

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Florentine Joop (* 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German children's book illustrator, painter and author.

Professional career

After graduating from Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg, Florentine Joop began studying at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . With Professor Rüdiger Stoye , she completed the illustration course, which she completed with a diploma in illustration with a focus on children's books. She also took part in other training courses, including at the Museum for Art and Crafts in Portrait Drawing, at the Blankenese Art School and in a writing workshop with Professors Klaus Ensikat and Klaus Hegewaldt .

In 2000 the first children's book, Bonifacio and the Secret of the Sloths , written and illustrated by Joop came out. Her first novel, Harte Jungs , was published in 2013 .

In addition to her journalistic activities, Joop is also active as a painter and in other creative areas. From 2006 to 2007 she was a lecturer at the Blankenese Art School, set up an artist café in Hamburg in 2003 and organized exhibitions. In 2011 she designed sets and costumes for the children's musical Wachgeküsst by and with Christian Berg and the music by Konstantin Wecker , a production of Sleeping Beauty in the Winterhuder Fährhaus . She is one of the editors of the Berlin art magazine ST.ART . She also ran the Barokoko restaurant in Potsdam until 2009 and the Heinrich restaurant in Berlin-Mitte until 2011 .

In 2012, Florentine Joop founded the studio community STU / DI / O together with other artists.

Private

Florentine Joop is the mother of twins born in 2010, a son and a daughter, and has lived with her family in Berlin since 2007 . She married her second husband, the father of her children, in 2007, has been separated from him since 2013 and is divorced from him. In 2016 she married her third husband, a media artist. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Joop and sister of Jette Joop .

Exhibitions

  • 2003: Diploma / exhibition in Hamburg with paintings on the subject of "Three Sisters"
  • 2007 Exhibition at the “Kunsthaus Thalstrasse” in Halle

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. Restaurant "Barokoko" closes on pnn.de v. July 14, 2009
  2. Joop's daughter closes her restaurant on t-online.de v. March 12, 2011
  3. Daughter gave birth to twins: Wolfgang Joop is grandfather , t-online, May 21, 2013
  4. ^ Wedding , Hamburger Abendblatt , May 14, 2007
  5. [1] , bunt.de, 11 Mar 2014
  6. Media artist Fleiter: Yes-word in the garden of the Joop property , Lokalo24.de, May 5, 2016

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