Hannes Mercker
Hannes Mercker (born March 26, 1983 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) is a German cartoonist , draftsman and illustrator .
Life
Hannes Mercker grew up in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony. After graduating from high school, he did his community service at the nature conservation company Schutzstation Wattenmeer on the North Sea island of Pellworm , where he worked as a mudflat guide and bird counter. Here he also started drawing cartoons and comic strips .
H. Mercker studied to become a teacher at primary and secondary schools in Freiburg im Breisgau and graduated in 2008 with the first state examination. During this time he began to intensify his work as a cartoonist and took part in exhibitions and cartoon competitions throughout Germany. He finished his legal traineeship in Ellwangen in 2009 after a short time in order to work full-time as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator.
After several years in Mannheim, Hannes Mercker has lived and worked in Freudenstadt (Black Forest) since 2018 and draws for publishers, companies, advertising agencies and newspapers. His cartoons appear regularly in the daily newspapers Mannheimer Morgen , Die Rheinpfalz and Husumer Nachrichten .
The Oldenburg City Museum devoted an extensive exhibition to the cartoonist at the end of 2015, in which the artist's entire oeuvre was honored. The central element of the exhibition was a 2 × 4 m large hidden object picture of the city of Oldenburg, which H. Mercker had created on behalf of the museum.
Style and way of working
Mercker does not concentrate or simplify his drawings down to the essentials, as is usually the case with cartoons, but often provides them with a variety of details. The color palette used remains muted, pure colors are used for pointing and the color gradients used create an almost painterly effect. This creates an atmosphere that is rather untypical for this kind of fast entertainment.
Beyond the actual punch line , the viewer finds reasons to linger: Funny elements and side stories in the context and background encourage them to do so .
Hannes Mercker uses traditional and modern working techniques: The sketch drawn with pencil on paper is given the final graphic expression with fineliner . Only after the original pencil sketch has been completely erased is the drawing scanned, colored on the computer and finished. More rarely he colors manually with a brush and watercolors , sometimes he combines both techniques.
"The combination of traditional drawing technology and digital processing is a factor in Hannes Mercker's work that should not be underestimated. It is precisely from this combination that he creates his own potential in drawing ."
Works
As an author:
- Brush between ebb and flow. Pellworm-Verlag Borchard, Pellworm 2010, ISBN 978-3-936017-19-9
- Would you like to avoid the traffic jam ? Isensee-Verlag , Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89995-744-0
- Please do not park bicycles here . Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-902-4
- Cartoons and drawings . Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7308-1219-8
- N / A? Also from Oldenburg? Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7308-1262-4
As an illustrator:
- German literature from the Middle Ages to Romanticism . Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-816-2
- Mad Pythagoras . Cuvillier , Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86955-943-8
- Cheating does not count . Cuvillier, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-95404-469-6
- Under the knife III . Kaden-Verlag , Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942825-16-0
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Tetenbüll (Eiderstedt), House Peters
- 2015 Oldenburg, Oldenburg City Museum
Nominations / Awards
- 2009: 2 nominations for the German Cartoon Prize
- 2010: 5th place in the cartoon contest "Soot makes the Arctic melt" by the German environmental associations NABU , Deutsche Umwelthilfe , BUND and VCD
- 2010: 1st place in the Big Comic Special Prize from taz nord / Lappan-Verlag
- 2012: 1 nomination for the German Cartoon Prize
- 2014, 2015, 2017: each shortlist for the German Caricature Award
Web links
- Original website by Hannes Mercker
- Books by and with Hannes Mercker Catalog of the German National Library , accessed on March 23, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cartoonist draws the city: Oldenburg is teeming with. In: NWZonline. Retrieved March 25, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Dirk Meyer: Hannes Mercker: An introduction to the work . In: Andreas von Seggern (Ed.): Hannes Mercker cartoons and drawings . 1st edition. Isensee, Oldenburg 2015, p. 19/20 .
- ↑ sh: z: Passion for crackling | shz.de. In: shz. Retrieved on April 2, 2016 (German).
- ^ City of Oldenburg: Hannes Mercker: Cartoons and Drawings - City of Oldenburg. In: www.oldenburg.de. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Cartoon competition - Soot-free for the climate. In: www.russfrei-fuers-klima.de. Retrieved March 25, 2016 .
- ↑ taz, the daily newspaper: - taz.de. In: www.taz.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
- ↑ taz-Comic-Spezialpreis 2010 - H. Mercker: Cartoonist and Illustrator Mannheim. In: www.hannes-mercker.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
- ↑ German Cartoon Prize 2012 | CARLSEN publishing house. (No longer available online.) In: www.carlsen.de. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on November 28, 2018 .
- ^ German Caricature Award: Gallery. In: www.deutscherkarikaturenpreis.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mercker, Hannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cartoonist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg (Oldb) |