Klaus Puth

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Klaus Puth (right) with the gallery owner Egbert Greven at the vernissage of his Golem illustrations (2015).

Klaus M. Puth (* 1952 in Frankfurt ) is a German caricaturist and illustrator . He lives in Mühlheim am Main .

education

After graduating from high school in 1972, Puth completed a two-year apprenticeship as a graphic designer with the Bundeswehr and then studied at the Offenbach University of Design . He received an award for his diploma thesis The City in Caricature in 1980.

Career

Puth illustrated over 300 books for well-known publishers such as Arena, Scherz, Carlsen, ArsEdition, various calendars at Heyne Verlag and Dumont as well as school books for the publishers Diesterweg, Cornelsen, Schroedel and magazines such as Pardon . He developed the figure of the yoga cows for Eichborn Verlag . Free works are the illustration of Simplicissimus, illustrations for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and for the novel Der Golem von Meyrinck .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Solo exhibition in the cartoon forum of the Caricature Museum Basel
  • 2009: Solo exhibition on “Simplicissimus” in the Gelnhausen Museum
  • 2014: Solo exhibition at the Kunstpalais Badenweiler
  • 2014: Solo exhibition "Tono Monogatari", Japanese fairy tales in the Brothers Grimm House in Steinau
  • 2015: “Photography and Caricature” - exhibition in the “Das Bilderhaus” gallery in Frankfurt am Main
  • 2015: Solo exhibition in the House of City History, Offenbach am Main,
  • 2015: Solo exhibition in the Witzel Gallery, Mühlheim am Main
  • 2016: Solo exhibition in the gallery “Schön und Bissig”, Penzberg

Awards

  • 1999: Culture Prize of the City of Mühlheim / Main
  • 2003: Study trip award from the Heusenstamm Foundation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita on the homepage, accessed on May 9, 2016
  2. ^ Literature by and about Klaus Puth in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Puth, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puth, Klaus M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt