Lusja Shatalova

Lusja Shatalova (born March 10, 1968 in Fergana , Soviet Union ) is an Uzbek designer and illustrator for children's books. Shatalova has lived and worked in Germany since 1997.

In 1979 she began studying at the local art school in Fergana, which she completed in 1983 with a diploma in decorative painting . She then studied at the Art School in Tashkent until 1989, when she obtained her diploma as a painter .

She took part in various art exhibitions in Tashkent and Moscow. There she illustrated the books “Uzbek Folk Tales” and “Children's Songs and Poems”. In 1996 she received permission to travel to Germany.

With her very own style with specially cut out and glued collage techniques, she has developed a style of illustration that stands out from other European techniques and is probably most comparable to the Eastern European ones, such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria. Her predilection for fairy tales, poetry and children's literature can also be found in her other, larger-format works.

In the summer of 2007 she led a project on “The virtual trip to Australia. Create colors yourself - paint like Aborginees “for children aged nine and over. With intense colors, as the natives of Australia know them, they led them to imaginative pictures.

Since 1997 she has had numerous exhibitions throughout Germany, for example in galleries in Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne and most recently in Koblenz.

She lives with her daughter in Troisdorf .

Exhibitions

2009: Afrasiab and dervishes . Impressions , gallery in the Stadtmuseum Siegburg

Works

• The girl and the moon . A Chukchi folk tale. Illustrations by Lusja Shatalova. Kidemus, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-9806910-1-2 .
• Josef Mahlmeister : Just don't bite my little flake! Illustrations by Lusja Shatalova. Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-9806184-5-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lusja Shatalova in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rhein-Zeitung of February 20, 2008