Franz Josef Tripp

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Franz Josef Tripp (born December 7, 1915 in Essen , † February 18, 1978 ) was a German painter, draftsman and, in particular, illustrator of children's books , including some of the most successful children's books in German-speaking countries. His son is the artist Jan Peter Tripp (* 1945).

Life and work

Tripp began his professional life as a journalist and writer . At the end of the 1930s he began to supplement the texts he had written with self-made illustrations. After the end of the Second World War , he decided to put the graphic work at the expense of the writing activity in the foreground. Until 1949 he trained with the painter and graphic artist Heinrich C. Berann in Innsbruck . He then worked as a freelance commercial artist. In the course of time he also increasingly produced book illustrations .

In 1960, the publisher Lotte Weitbrecht from Thienemann Verlag commissioned him with the illustrations for the children's book Jim Button and Lukas the Locomotive Driver by Michael Ende . This was followed by further orders of the publisher: In addition to the second volume of Jim Knopf he illustrated many other books for children, including Robbi, Tobbi and Fliewatüüt of Boy Lornsen , from 1962 all three volumes of the robber Hotzenplotz and 1966. The small ghost , each of Otfried Preußler written . For the publisher Ueberreuter (later in Tosa-Verlag), the illustrations created to Meffi -Bänden of Doris Jannausch and the book Williwack of Günter Spang , for Franz Schneider Verlag to Felix the master detective of Hans Gustl Kernmayr .

Works (selection)

Own works

  • 1938: Between sea and moor.
  • 1956: Marco and the Shark: A Story from Sicily.
  • 1973: When daddy's sausage stall blew up.
  • 1974: Borba and the bear.

Illustrations for other authors

literature

  • Jan Peter Tripp among others: Querfeldein - in search of Jupp: To the exhibition "Father & Son". Franz Josef Tripp - Jan Peter Tripp. Ulrich Keicher Verlag, Leonberg 2006, ISBN 3-938743-30-1 .
  • Mirijam Steinhauser: From Jim Knopf to Hotzenplotz. The children's book worlds of Franz Josef Tripp. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6394-7 .
  • Linda Schmitz-Kleinreesink, Christine Vogt (eds.): Robber Hotzenplotz, Krabat and The Little Witch Otfried Preußler - figure creator and storyteller , Oberhausen 2020. ISBN 978-3-932236-44-0

Exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jošitomo Imae, Otfried Preußler, Zdeněk Karel Slabý, Friedrich Rosenfeld , Marcello Argilli , Pierre Gamarra , Jens Sigsgaard, Sergej Baruzdin, Ludwik Jerzy Kern , Ahmed Hromadžič: The secret of the orange-colored cat, 10 authors from 10 countries , German adaptation: Otfried Preußler (Original title: Tajemství oranžové kočky ), Thienemann, Stuttgart 1968, 9th edition 1984, ISBN 3-522-11360-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Tripp, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and children's book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1978