Gertrud Zucker
Gertrud Zucker (born January 3, 1936 in Berlin-Weißensee ) is a German illustrator and graphic artist . In addition to film advertising, press drawings and occasional graphics, she devoted herself to the graphic design of a large number of novels and picture books for children and, after the fall of the Wall, also of school books , after other jobs had become less after the GDR publishers were closed. She achieved great fame for her original, loving and humorous children's book illustrations.
Life
Gertrud Zucker spent her childhood in Berlin and briefly in Pomerania during the Second World War . After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1954, she studied graphics from 1954 to 1959 at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee. Your teachers were u. a. the Professors Werner Klemke , Arno Mohr and Paul Rosié .
She has lived as a freelance illustrator in Bad Saarow since 1960 and has designed over 100 children's books since then . She mainly worked for the following publishers:
- Children's book publisher Berlin
- Verlag Junge Welt
- Domowina publishing house Bautzen
- Volk und Wissen Verlag
Zucker is one of the permanent artistic collaborators of the communist-socialist monthly “ RotFuchs ”.
She has been married to Gerd Zucker since 1958 and has three grown children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandson.
Drawing technique
The old master of the GDR children's book illustration, Hans Baltzer , saw Zucker's particular strength in the use of colors as a mood carrier. Sparingly decorative and harmoniously flat, she sets color values on a book page, always according to the text-image relationships. Their apparently uncomplicated, lightly set drawing and cheerful colors show the figures realistically and objectively. Moods such as happiness, exuberance, crying and anger, the rapidly changing childlike emotional scale hits her with sure lines. Her works often only show the essentials, but surprise after closer inspection with loving details and thus stimulate the imagination of the little observer. In numerous storybook stories there are turbulent, happy ideas that the text alone does not offer.
Awards
- “Most beautiful book of the year”: On the ABC star
- Heinrich von Kleist Prize - Art Prize of the Frankfurt (Oder) District
- Hans Baltzer Prize from the children's book publisher
- Recognition of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR for illustrations Come to May and do ...
- 1965 “Most beautiful book of the year”: Green leaves, colorful leaves
- 1966 Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR for the book The girl was called Gesine ...
- 1967 “Most beautiful book of the year”: Ilse Bilse
- 1983 “Most beautiful book of the year”: Why do you get a slap?
- 1991 "Commendable recognition" at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the school book Our mother tongue
Works (selection)
- Hosenmatz, tell me something (1964)
- Tassel, Taps and Tine (Author: Hannes Hüttner , 1965)
- Bim, bam, bum (Author: Nils Werner , 1965)
- The girl's name was Gesine ... (Author: Karl Neumann , 1966)
- On the ABC star (Author: Wera Küchenmeister , 1967)
- The wind turbine (Author: Helmut Preißler , 1967)
- Ilse Bilse (Author: Achim Roscher, 1968), ISBN 978-3358030073
- Moon squirrel (Author: Bodo Schulenburg, 1970)
- The cat washes the omnibus (Author: Peter Hacks , 1973)
- Sundus and the oat-yellow dog (Author: Benno Pludra , 1976)
- Dancing birches - poems for children brought back from the Soviet Union (Author: Werner Lindemann , 1977)
- From the giant Timpetu (author: Alwin Freudenberg , 1910), 1977, ISBN 978-3896033345
- The larch violin (Author: Jan Wornar , 1978)
- This is Pill Riim (Author: Ellen Niit , 1980)
- Michael, of all people! (Author: Sieglinde Dick , 1981), ISBN 978-3225414753
- The Mill on the Sea Floor (1983)
- Why do you get a slap? (Author: Peter Abraham, 1983), ISBN 978-3358006139
- The dachshund Oskar (author: Edith Bergner, 1984), ISBN 978-3358006023
- No costume for Karla? (1986), ISBN 978-3358005019
- Jule & Julchen (1987), ISBN 3358002942
- The school ghost (Author: Peter Abraham , 1988)
- ABC, Reading Doesn't Hurt (Author: Peter Abraham, 1989), ISBN 978-3358013052
- Our mother tongue (1991), ISBN 9783061002305
- Carola's flight to Denkdirwas (Author: Peter Abraham, 1997), ISBN 978-3896030023
- The Hexenhaus (reading corner for book lovers) (Author: Albert Wendt, 1999), ISBN 978-3358021910
- Dog ears. A reader weeps (Author: Ingeborg Rapoport , 2017), ISBN 978-3943614121
literature
- Hans Bentzien: Zauberhaftes Saarow , ISBN 9783929592443
- Hela Baudis, flyer for the exhibition of children's book illustrations from February 6 to March 18, 1986 in the Georg Maurer Library (Leipzig)
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrud Zucker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography with portrait
Individual evidence
- ^ Hela Baudis, flyer for the exhibition opening in Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sugar, Gertrude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Weissensee |