Horst Lemke

Horst Lemke (born June 30, 1922 in Berlin ; † May 10, 1985 in Brione ) was a German illustrator and graphic artist .

Shortly before graduating from high school, Horst Lemke had to leave school because of drawing a Goebbels caricature. He studied from 1939 to 1941 at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin with the graphic artist Gerhard Ulrich. Then he became a soldier. From 1945 to 1957 he worked in Heidelberg as a commercial artist and illustrator for book and magazine publishers. From 1957 until his death he lived in Brione near Locarno ( Switzerland ).

After the death of Walter Trier in 1951, Horst Lemke illustrated Erich Kästner 's children's books , with whom he had a personal friendship. Among the other authors whose books he illustrated are Max Kruse , Astrid Lindgren , the Brothers Grimm , Heinrich Maria Denneborg , James Krüss and Josef Göhlen .

Lemke was proposed for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960. He received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961 and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1983 .

Books illustrated by Horst Lemke (selection)

Books by Erich Kästner

• The shield citizens
• Life and deeds of the astute knight Don Quixote
• When I was a little boy
• The pig at the hairdresser's
• The little man
• Gulliver's Travels
• The little man and the little miss
• May 35th (from 20th edition 1968)
• The missing miniature . Or also: the adventures of a sensitive butcher master.

Books by other authors

• JA Benkert / Inge Dreecken: River and Sea sagas , Keysersche Verlagbuchhandlung , Heidelberg / Munich 1961
• Johannes Banzhaf : Lustiges Volk , Mosaik Verlag, Hamburg, 37th edition
• Ulla Leippe : Römische Sagen , Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg-Munich 1963
• Ulla Leippe : Artus Sagen , Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1964
• Ulla Leippe : Greek legends , Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1964
• Arno Reissenweber : German Castle Legends , Keysersche Verlagbuchhandlung , Munich 1965
• Arno Reissenweber : Germanic legends of the gods , Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 5th edition 1968
• Josef Göhlen : Bill Bo and his six companions , Hoch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1968, ISBN 3522168895
• The most beautiful fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Illustrations by Horst Lemke, Hoch and Bertelsmann, Düsseldorf, Gütersloh 1965.
• Manfred Hausmann : Bremen Town Musicians
• Manfred Hausmann: If all this is laziness ...
• August Kopisch : The Heinzelmännchen of Cologne , ISBN 978-3-570-06196-1
• Max Kruse : The fat lion comes last
• Max Kruse: The lion is on the loose
• Max Kruse: Don Blech and the Golden Junker
• Max Kruse: Well roared, lion
• Max Kruse: When a lion comes flying
• Max Kruse: Leo is good, everything is good
• Max Kruse: Sultan in the pit . Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1959
• Christian Morgenstern: Children's poems , Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna and Heidelberg around 1965
• Otto Flake : The man in the moon . Mohn, Gütersloh 1959
• Otto Flake: All's well that ends well . Mohn, Gütersloh 1958
• Werner Hörnemann : The shackled ghosts. Herder, Freiburg 1952
• PL Travers : Mary Poppins . Dressler, Berlin 1952.
• PL Travers: Mary Poppins is coming back. Dressler, Berlin 1953.
• PL Travers: Mary Poppins opens the door. Dressler, Berlin 1954.
• PL Travers: Mary Poppins in the Park. Dressler, Berlin 1955.
• Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Mohn, Gütersloh 1964
• Ursula Wölfel : Julius - or the story of the billy goat that annoyed people until everyone wanted him. Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1964

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Lemke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Horst Lemke  in the German Digital Library
• Horst Lemke at dressler-verlag.de