Gerald Scarfe

Gerald Anthony Scarfe , CBE (born June 1, 1936 in London ) is an English caricaturist , illustrator , draftsman , creator of animated films and set designer . He also created sculptures and designed costumes. He became known worldwide through the design of the cartoon videos , the set design and the cover and booklet design for the Pink Floyd album The Wall and the feature film based on it.

Scarfe is married to the English actress Jane Asher , with whom he has a daughter (* 1974) and two sons (* 1981 and * 1984).

Caricaturist and draftsman

Scarfe has drawn and published cartoons since the 1960s, first in Punch , then for Private Eye , and later for Esquire , Time Magazine and The New Yorker .

From 1966 he was employed by the Daily Mail as a cartoonist. In the same year he began to draw covers for Time magazine , including those of the Beatles , and was also employed by her as a draftsman for reports. In 1967 he began working as a political cartoonist for The Sunday Times , for which he then did one cartoon every week for over 40 years. For this Sunday newspaper he also made pictures of war in Vietnam , Northern Ireland and the Middle East.

Set designer and costume designer

Scarfe has designed sets and costumes for numerous plays , operas , ballets and musicals , e.g. B. in London, Houston , Los Angeles and Detroit . Selection:

Costumes for Ubu Unchained , Traverse Theater Edinburgh, 1967
Set design for The Big One , Dominion Theater, 1983
Stage design and costumes for Who's a Lucky Boy? , a musical by Alan Price , Royal Exchange, Manchester , 1985
Set design and costumes for Orpheus in the Underworld ENO , London Coliseum , 1985, also performed in Detroit and Houston 1986, London, 1987, Los Angeles 1988
Set design for The Merry Wives of Windsor , Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis , 1986
Set design and costumes for The Magic Flute , Los Angeles Opera 1997 (also performed in Houston 1998, Seattle 1999, San Francisco 2007)
Set design and costumes for Feydeau farce Le Dindon (An Absolute Turkey) (Laurence Olivier Award), 1993
Set design and costumes for the opera Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl , Los Angeles Opera, 1998
Costumes for Peter & The Wolf , Holiday on Ice, Paris & world tour, 2000
Set design for The Nutcracker , English National Ballet , 2002
Stage design for Peter Schaufuss ' ballet Satisfaction , based on the work of the Rolling Stones , 2006

Works

Books

Gerald Scarfe , Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1982, ISBN 978-0-500-27268-8
Scarfe by Scarfe: An Autobiography in Pictures , Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1986, ISBN 978-0-241-11959-4
Line of Attack [The Official Gerald Scarfe Website]
Expletive Deleted [The Official Gerald Scarfe Website]
Heroes and Villains [The Official Gerald Scarfe Website]
Drawing Blood: Forty Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored [The Official Gerald Scarfe Website]
SCARFELAND: A LOST WORLD OF FABULOUS BEASTS AND MONSTERS , Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1989, ISBN 0-241-12859-5
Monsters: How George Bush Saved the World - and Other Tall Stories Cover image

Directorial work

Scarfe was the director of the films:

Long Drawn-Out Trip: Sketches from Los Angeles (also book and production), 1971
"Forty Minutes" Scarfe's Follies (1988)
"Forty Minutes" I Like the Girls Who Do (1989) Series episode about the comedian Max Millar .

Animation design

Hercules (1997) , Walt-Disney cartoon

Exhibitions

1968: Exhibition US Election '68, Waddell Gallery, New York
1969: Exhibition Hung By Scarfe, Sears Vincent Price Gallery, Chicago
1970: Exhibition Gerald Scarfe, Sculpture Pavilion d'Humour, Montreal
1970: Exhibition Gerald Scarfe, Osaka , Japan
1970: Exhibition Gerald Scarfe 60-70, Waddell Gallery, New York
1983: Exhibition - Gerald Scarfe at the Festival Hall
1997: Exhibition of drawings for Hercules, Z Gallery, New York
1999: Exhibition of paintings and drawings: Scarfe at the National Portrait Gallery , London
2003: Exhibition and book Heroes & Villains - Scarfe at the NPG
2005: Exhibition at Fine Arts Society , London
2008: House of Commons , exhibition of political drawings
2009: Gerald Scarfe . Tear down the wall . Moritzburg Art Museum , Halle (Saale)
2010: Gerald Scarfe - Heroes and Monsters . Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature and Drawing , Hanover (July 18 to October 24, 2010)
2016: Scarfe and Music . Barbican Library, London (September 5 to October 31, 2016)
2018: Gerald Scarfe - Portraits & Caricatures: Big Heads - from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump . Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature and Drawing, Hanover (May 26 to August 12, 2018)

Honors

Cartoonist of the Year, British Press Awards , 2006
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee , 2007
Commander of the Order of the British Empire , 2008
Caricature Prize of the German Lawyers , 2010

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Artist's website

Individual evidence

↑ Page 10 of the brochure for the first solo exhibition on Scarfe in Germany at the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle, Saxony (PDF file, 6 MB)
↑ ^a ^b ^c Official Homepage - About Gerald ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2009 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. . Retrieved November 13, 2009 (English) @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b Gerald Scarfe made to Honorary Doctor of Laws . Retrieved November 15, 2009 (English)
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1420635/
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423009/
^ Scarfe and Music. (No longer available online.) In: barbican.org.uk. Archived from the original on October 17, 2016 ; accessed on October 17, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2
↑ London Gazette, issue 58729, June 14, 2008, page 8
^ The Federal Bar Association for the price

Web links

Videos

personal data
SURNAME	Scarfe, Gerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scarfe, Gerald Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English caricaturist, illustrator and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	London

[1] Page 10 of the brochure for the first solo exhibition on Scarfe in Germany at the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle, Saxony (PDF file, 6 MB)

[About-2] Official Homepage - About Gerald ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2009 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. . Retrieved November 13, 2009 (English) @1@ 2

[Honorary_Doctor-3] Gerald Scarfe made to Honorary Doctor of Laws . Retrieved November 15, 2009 (English)

[4] ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1420635/

[5] ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423009/

[6] Scarfe and Music. (No longer available online.) In: barbican.org.uk. Archived from the original on October 17, 2016 ; accessed on October 17, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2

[7] London Gazette, issue 58729, June 14, 2008, page 8

[8] The Federal Bar Association for the price