Peter Knorr (Illustrator)

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Peter Knorr (2016)

Peter Knorr (* 1956 in Munich ) is a German illustrator who has drawn numerous children's books and book covers for works by Erich Kästner , Peter Härtling , Kirsten Boie , Paul Maar , Irene Wellershoff , Rafik Schami and others. Knorr also worked as a draftsman for television programs such as the ZDF children's series Siebenstein . In the last few years he has produced a number of Wimmel and picture books together with Doro Göbel.

Knorr studied art education in Mainz. He was honored for his work in the competition “The Most Beautiful German Books” from the Book Art Foundation. Today he lives as a freelance illustrator with his family in Nierstein am Rhein.

reception

"The loving attention to detail is the result of thorough planning: [...] The drawing process is also complex: first draft with pencil, then the scanned drawing is colored on the computer, then printed out, then redrawn by hand so that that The picture is all of a piece and doesn't look as clean as it was constructed on the computer. And then the drawing is scanned again and processed again on the computer in order to eliminate small errors. "

"In their Wimmel books, Doro Göbel and Peter Knorr paint a picture of a very diverse society in which people with very different identities come together. You can see this particularly well in the families in their books: There are not only classic nuclear families, but a wide variety of family models, Same-sex partners as well as those with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The characters are also not limited to classic gender roles. "

"Hidden object books are probably the most communicative genre of children's literature: parents and children put the pictures into words, retell the drawn stories, describe the protagonists. The more narrative material a hidden object book provides, the better it works. The masters of this genre are the illustrators Doro Göbel and Peter Knorr ... "

Works (selection)

  • 2020: Göbel & Knorr Hidden Objects Edition Calendar 2021 (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2019: construction is going on here! A hidden object story. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2017: The river cruise. A hidden object story. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2016: Oh dear, the crocodile is gone. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2016: The Hidden Object Coloring Book (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2015: Our Home: A Hidden Object Story. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2014: The most beautiful soap box in the world. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2013: What are they doing ?: A hidden object story about professions. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2011: In the circus: A hidden object story. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2010: The Excursion: A Hidden Object Story. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2006: What are the Maiers looking for in the Himalayas? (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2005: Maier's big puzzle journey. (with Doro Göbel)
  • 2000: Rudi Rabe learns to fly. (with Irene Wellershoff)
  • 1999: YOU will see, it will be great. (with Kirsten Boie)
  • 1996: When I was a little boy. (with Erich Kästner)
  • 1995: How Nikki experienced her blue miracle. (with Sibylle Duran)
  • 1994: mother father child. (with Kirsten Boie)
  • 1992: Anne imitates everything. (with Paul Maar)
  • 1990: The wonder box. (with Rafik Schami)
  • 1990: Grandma. (with Peter Härtling)

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dtv: Peter Knorr accessed on August 10, 2020
  2. ↑ marianne wellershoff: Wimmelbücher. Parents staring at goats. In: Spiegel Kultur from April 11, 2011, accessed on August 10, 2020
  3. ↑ Robert Best: Wimmelbücher. "Everyone shares the big world". An interview with Cornelia Rémi. In: Junge Welt from May 30, 2020, accessed on August 10, 2020
  4. ↑ Spiegel Kultur: What does Santa Claus do after Christmas? Accessed December 12, 2017 on August 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich