Pauline Baynes

Pauline Baynes

Pauline Diana Baynes (born September 9, 1922 in Brighton , † August 1, 2008 in Surrey ) was a British illustrator and author .

biography

Pauline Baynes, daughter of Frederick William Wilberforce Baynes and Jessie Harriet Maude Baynes, née Cunningham, spent the first five years of her life in India , where her father worked. Back in England, she first attended the Beaufort School in Camberley . In 1937 she followed her older sister Angela to the Farnham School of Art , two years later she went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London .

During the Second World War , Baynes worked for the Ministry of Defense, among other things as a map maker. It was during this time that she created her first illustrations, which were published in the Perry Color Books . After the war, she taught art at the Beaufort School for two years . At the same time, her career as an illustrator began.

On March 25, 1961, Pauline Baynes married the German Fritz Otto Gasch, who had come to England as a prisoner of war.

Bayne's longstanding association with JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis began when Tolkien was very dissatisfied with the illustrations proposed by Allen & Unwin for Farmer Giles von Ham by Milein Cosman . The publisher then asked Baynes to provide drawings for the book; Tolkien liked them very much. A short time later, CS Lewis hired her for The King of Narnia and subsequently for the entire series The Chronicles of Narnia . Baynes later illustrated Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Der Schmied von Großholzingen . She illustrated more than 100 books.

In 1968 Pauline Baynes was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for her drawings in Grant Uden's Dictionary of Chivalry .

Works (selection)

Texts and illustrations

• Victoria and the Golden Bird , 1948
• The Song of the Three Holy Children , 1986
• How Dog Began , 1986
• Good King Wenceslaus , 1987
• Noah and the Ark , 1988
• Thanks Be to God: Prayers from Around the World (Ed.), 1990
• In the Beginning , 1991

Illustrations

JRR Tolkien

• Farmer Giles of Ham (Farmer Giles of Ham) , 1949
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) , 1962
• The blacksmith von Großholzingen (Smith of Wootton Major) , 1967
• Bilbo's Last Song (Bilbo's Last Song) , 1974

CS Lewis

• The King of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) , 1950
• Prince Caspian of Narnia (Prince Caspian) , 1951
• The Voyage of the Dawn (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) , 1952
• The Silver Chair (The Silverchair) , 1953
• The Ride to Narnia (The Horse and His Boy) , 1954
• The Magician's Nephew (The Magician's Nephew) , 1956
• The Last Battle (The Last Battle) , 1956

Victoria Stevenson

• Clover Magic , 1944
• The Magic Footstool , 1946
• The Magic Broom , 1950

Amabel Williams-Ellis

• The Arabian Nights , 1957
• Fairy Tales from the British Isles , 1960

Hans Christian Andersen

• Andersen's Fairy Tales , 1963

Grant Uden

• Dictionary of Chivalry , 1968

Richard Barber

• Companion to World Mythology , 1979

Beatrix Potter

• County Tales , 1987

Web links

• Literature by and about Pauline Baynes in the catalog of the German National Library

swell

• Walter Hooper (Ed.): CS Lewis - Collected Letters Vol. II, Biographical Appendix. HarperCollins 2004 ISBN 000628146X