Gerhard Oberländer
Gerhard Oberländer (born September 12, 1907 in Berlin ; † May 12, 1995 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German book illustrator.
life and work
Gerhard Oberländer began his training as a painter , graphic artist and illustrator as a student at the Reimann School , a private Berlin art and trade school, and continued his studies at the Berlin University of the Arts with Ernst Böhm , Paul Plontke and Peter Fischer .
After completing his studies, he received orders as an illustrator from the Gutenberg Book Guild . When the Second World War broke out, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was a soldier until 1945. After the end of the war he lived as a freelance painter from 1945 to 1952 in Würzburg and from 1952 in Offenbach am Main. From this year he resumed his work for the book guild. For the publishing house he illustrated more than 40 books and designed over 100 book covers. He also worked a. a. as an illustrator for Ellermann-Verlag and Heimaren-Verlag .
When illustrating the books, Oberländer placed particular emphasis on close correspondence between image and text. The illustrations had to adapt to the text, but are characterized by their own, unmistakable illustration style and playful wit in the text interpretation.
Awards
Books illustrated by Oberländer have received several awards from the German Book Trade Association. In 1972 he received the silver medal for his illustrations of "Don Quixote" by Cervantes in the exhibition Most Beautiful Books from All Over the World of the Book Art Foundation .
Books illustrated by Gerhard Oberländer (selection)
Oberländer mainly illustrated editions of children's book classics from German and world literature. In addition, he drew illustrations for children's non-fiction books, school books and numerous cookbooks for the Ernst Heimeran- Verlag.
- Krählinde the fluffed , a picture book by Gerhard Oberländer
- Aesop : The fox and the grapes and seven other fables by Aesop. Transferred from Rudolf Hagelstange
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Hans Christian Andersen :
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Fairy tales and histories , 4 volumes
- The most beautiful children's fairy tales
- The biblical story told by Stefan Andres
- Gottfried August Bürger : Münchhausen
- Carlo Collodi : Gäpfelskern's adventure and funny adventure , retold by Otto Julius Bierbaum
- Alphonse Daudet : The little thing
- Daniel Defoe : Life and Adventure of Robinson Crusoe
- Grimm's Fairytales
- August Kopisch : The Heinzelmännchen of Cologne
- Irina Korschunow : The colorful dog, the black shaft and the fearful rabbit
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Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island . Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, ISBN 3-7779-0159-8 .
- as paperback: dtv junior, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-423-07081-1 .
- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Abduction . Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969.
- as paperback: dtv junior, Munich 1973.
- Till Eulenspiegel .
literature
- Children's books from the fifties - Gerhard Oberländer on his 80th birthday , exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum , Munich 1987
- Gerhard Oberländer . Drawings, illustrations. 5. Print by the Klingspor Museum . Offenbach 1963
- Gerhard Oberländer. Drawings . Exhibition in the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath , Frankfurt 1976
- Dorothea Peters: Oberländer, Gerhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 391 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ From the antiquarian bookshop, issues 1-12 , Verlag der Buchhandler-Vereinigung GmbH., 1996
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oberländer, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German book illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1995 |
| Place of death | Offenbach am Main |