Heiner Vogel

Heiner Vogel (born July 19, 1925 in Calbe ; † December 15, 2014 in Leipzig ) was a German graphic artist and wood engraver as well as an author who is also known for numerous book illustrations.

education

After an apprenticeship and activity as a bandagist , he studied from 1952 to 1957 at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art (HGB), specializing in book design . As a diploma thesis, he illustrated Joachim Ringelnatz 'work “How many thoughts accompany the ships” with eleven wood engravings . Since 1963 he has worked as a freelancer in Leipzig. In the same year he began an aspiration that lasted until 1965. Vogel illustrated a. a. for the Insel-Bücherei and the Dieterich Collection . He was also the initiator of the “Leipziger Bilderbogens”.

Heiner Vogel also appeared as a collector of historical children's books and folk graphics. He made many of his valuable collector's items available to a wider public in the context of exhibitions or through new editions.

Works (selection)

• (Afterword) The fair. Sights and scenes in a colorful series (reprint of the edition published in 1843), Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978 (Insel-Bilderbuch)
• (Afterword) Anton Benedikt Reichenbach: Flower thread in father Rosenfeld's favorite arbor. 1981 (reprint)
• (Afterword) Friedrich Gustav Normann: The tower clock. An arithmetic primer for young children. 1977 (reprint)
• (Afterword) Funny animal pictures and rhymes from the world of fables. 1978 (reprint)
• (Afterword) Ernst Hold: First book for children or ABC and reader. 1980 (reprint)
• (Afterword) Eduard Ille: The masked ball of the animals. 1982 (reprint)
• Picture sheet, paper soldier, dice game and wheel of life. Folk graphics for children and paper toys from the beginnings to the 19th century (photos: Joachim Petri), Edition Leipzig, [Leipzig] 1981
• Art for children in the old days - folk graphics of the 19th century. Catalog for the exhibition from October 29, 1988 to March 12, 1989 . State Museum Castle Burgk (New Gallery), Burgk 1988
• Children's Christmas in the old days (photos: Sigrid Schmidt), EA Seemann, Leipzig 1992 ( ISBN 3-363-00565-2 )
• Book illustrations:
  • Illustrations for Horst Wandrey (editor): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Letters. A selection . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1964
  • Illustrations for Marianne Bruns: The boy with the two names. The silver mine . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1985
  • 19 wood engravings for Alexander Grin: The purple sail. A holiday . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1965 ( IB 290 / 2C)
  • Wood engravings to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The fairy tale . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1967 (IB 864)
  • 14 wood engravings on Georg Weerth: Humorous sketches from German trading life . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1972 (IB 954)
  • Wood engravings for Manfred Lemmer (transmission and publication): German-speaking narrators of the Middle Ages . Dieterich`sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1977 (Dieterich 370 Collection)
  • Wood engravings for Siegfried Streller (editor): German-speaking storytellers of the 16th and 17th centuries . Dieterich`sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1986 (Dieterich Collection 371)
  • Tabakiana. 1972

literature

• Old Leipzig children's books. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade. [Leipzig]. Vol. 143, 1976, pp. 128-129
• Helmut Bähring, Kurt Rüddiger (Hrsg.): Lexicon Buchstadt Leipzig - From the beginnings to 1990 . Tauchaer Verlag, [Taucha] 2008, p. 261 ISBN 978-3-89772-147-0
• Sabine Knopf: Heiner Vogel - collector and publicist of historical children's books. In: Book of Time. 1993
• Ilse Unruh: Colorful children's world - the Heiner Vogel collection in Leipzig. In: From the second-hand bookshop. 1994, p. A166 (at that time supplement to the Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels).
• Children's paradise. Toys, games and children's books from the Heiner Vogel collection. Leipzig: City History Museum 1994.