Hubert Schweizer

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Hubert Schweizer (born March 16, 1947 in Reissing ) is a German draftsman and illustrator specializing in science fiction .

Artistic work

After coming into contact with comics and fantastic literature in his youth , Hubert Schweizer began drawing work in the field of science fiction in addition to his training in mechanical engineering . In a drawing competition organized by the Perry Rhodan editorial team in 1972, the works he submitted took first and third place. Between 1979 and 1983 he produced illustrations for science fiction publications for Heyne Verlag . After a long journalistic break, he became active again from the mid-1990s. His more recent work includes illustrations for Perry Rhodan, Nova and Exodus .

Schweizer's works, especially the landscape depictions, have been attested to an aesthetic similarity to Max Ernst on various occasions, as they show, for example, “animal alienated, partly fragmentary physiognomies” or “the emergence of a vital essence that divides the earth anthropomorphically or vegetatively: into cyclops teeth, heads, ribs , Shoulders, trunks, stumps, bones, claws (...). Mixtures - this also applies to Max Ernst (...) - of organic and inorganic. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self-presentation on the website of the Blitz-Verlag , quoted from Exodus No. 23 (06/2008), p. 39.
  2. ↑ Blog entry by Christoph Roos from September 7, 2009.
  3. ↑ Catalog raisonné in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
  4. ↑ Bernd Karwath: Odyssey of Fantasy: Die Bildwelten Hubert Schweizer, in: Exodus No. 23 (06/2008), pp. 37–39, cited here p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Swiss, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and illustrator with a focus on science fiction
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Reissing