Martina Mair

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Martina Mair (* 1971 in Freising ) is a German illustrator, author and artist.

Career

After training at the vocational school for graphics and advertising in Munich, Mair worked as a graphic designer and storyboard artist from 1995 to 1997 . In 1997 she attended the summer academy "Pentiment" in Hamburg at FK Waechter .

Since 1998 she has been a freelance children's book illustrator and author of picture books.

From 2002 to 2009 she studied painting with Jerry Zeniuk at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Martina Mair lives and works in Munich.

Picture books (selection)

  • Molly Mole builds a house , (text and images), Prestel, 2000
  • Klara loves music , (text and images), Prestel, 2001
  • Seahorse where are you swimming to , by Dirk Walbrecker, ars Edition, 2002
  • A coat for the hoopoe , by Ghazi Abdel-Quadir, Sauerländer, 2003
  • Little angel where are you , by Dirk Walbrecker, Pattloch, 2004
  • The Advent Calendar Book , by Dirk Walbrecker, Pattloch, 2004
  • Is Omi an angel now? , by Dirk Walbrecker, Pattlock, 2006
  • Love me, said the piggy , from Linde von Keyserlingk , Kerle, 2006
  • Stories from Noah's Ark , by Gaby Scholz, Pattloch, 2007
  • Mümmel sucht das Weite , (text and images), atlantis Verlag, February 2010
  • Apiary and water wheel: Max and Emily discover the Amerang farmhouse museum , by Diana Hillebrand, Volk Verlag, 2013
  • For the Christkind on the Feldberg - Christmas with Fräulein Fanny, by Heidi Knoblich, Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8425-1424-9 .
  • Everyone is waiting for the gingerbread woman - A Christmas story from the Black Forest, by Heidi Knoblich, Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 3-8425-1474-3 .
  • Xaver im Uhrenland - Christmas with the Black Forest English, by Heidi Knoblich, Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2017,  ISBN 3-8425-2063-8

Awards

  • 2000 Book of the Month awarded by the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature for "Molly Maulwurf builds a house"
  • 2000 List of recommendations for "Annie and Fritz am Meer" by the joint venture of Protestant journalism
  • 2007 anniversary scholarship from the city of Munich for painting

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ io-home.org: Anniversary grant from the city of Munich for painting
personal data
SURNAME Mair, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising