Peter Schimmel

Peter Schimmel (born 1941 in St. Ingbert ) is a German illustrator and painter .

Schimmel has been producing illustrations and book covers for literature, children's, youth and school books and non-fiction books (ecology) since the 1960s and has designed posters and advertising. He worked with many book authors, including Klaus Kordon , Horst Stern and Frederic Vester .

Peter Schimmel lives in Munich .

Awards

• 1992: The political book , Prize of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung together with Klaus Kordon for Die Lisa - a German story .

Bibliography (selection)

Illustrations for stories

• Barbara Noack : Tending to fleas is easier: cheerful stories . Langen Müller Verlag , Munich, Vienna 1980. ISBN 3-7844-1802-3 .

Illustrations for children's books

• Frederic Vester : Water = Life - a cybernetic environmental book with 5 water cycles . Maier Verlag , Ravensburg 1987 (4th edition 1991). ISBN 3-473-35597-6 .
• Hermine König, Karl Heinz König, Karl Joseph Klöckner: Do this in memory of me . Part: Workbook to prepare for First Communion. Kösel-Verlag , Munich 1997. ISBN 3-466-50627-1 .
• Klaus Kordon : The Lisa - a German story . arsEdition , Zug and Munich 1991. ISBN 3-7607-7681-7 ; New editions: Beltz & Gelberg , Weinheim 2002. ISBN 3-407-79288-3 and 2007 ISBN 3-407-76057-4 .

Illustrations for non-fiction books

• Manfred Erren : Aratos: Phainomena, constellations and weather signs. Greek-German. With 23 star maps by Peter Schimmel. Heimeran, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7765-2106-6
• Erhard Gorys : Heimeran's kitchen dictionary . Kochbuchverlag Heimeran, Munich 1975. ISBN 3-8063-1093-9 ; New editions: The new kitchen encyclopedia - from Aachener Printen to ribs . With full-page black and white boards by Peter Schimmel. dtv , Munich 1977. ISBN 3-423-03140-9 ; New TB edition: 1994 (11th edition 2007). ISBN 3-423-36008-9 .
• Frederic Vester: Januskopf agriculture - the soil that nourishes us . Kösel-Verlag , Munich 1986. ISBN 3-466-11072-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schimmel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Schimmel website , online at peter-schimmel.com