Peter Paul Prince

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Peter Paul Prinz (born April 12, 1925 in Vienna ) is an Austrian painter , graphic artist and writer .

For about 15 years he worked as an illustrator and comic author of children's magazines, then in advertising graphics.

Life

Prinz received his training as a painter and graphic artist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His work as an illustrator of children's magazines began at the age of 23 at the children's post office , then he switched to Wunderwelt, which was founded in 1948 .

In 1960 he and his wife moved to Australia for three years , where he worked as a commercial artist . An occupation that he continued in Austria in 1964, including for "consumption" .

In 1985, Prinz retired. Since then he has been painting large-format nudes in the style of fantastic realism . In 2003 his artist novel Schattenbild was published with numerous illustrations from his hand.

Works

For the children's magazine Wunderwelt he created the comic series "Willibald the Sorcerer's Apprentice", in which little Willi initially went on his drawn adventures alone until Peter Paul Prinz put the magician Hokus at his side. A win for the series, because Hokus failed some witchcraft in a spectacularly humorous way to the amusement of the readers. In addition, later came his plump, evil cousin Pokus.

The colorful pictures were arranged in three strips from top to bottom and provided with rhyming texts that were remarkably humorous and cheeky for the time. When Hokus and Willi bought a scooter, it is told in the following verses:

We can look where we want to go -
we see scooters rolling!
The master says to his boy:
"I want a vehicle like this!
Your resume is more joyful
do you own a scooter! "
You can get the scooters in installments -
which is why they suddenly had one.

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SURNAME Prince, Peter Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna