Quint Buchholz
Quint Buchholz (born July 28, 1957 in Stolberg in the Rhineland ) is a German book author and illustrator .
Life
Quint Buchholz grew up in Stuttgart and, after graduating from high school, studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , then painting and graphics with Gerd Winner at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts .
Quint Buchholz was best known for his illustrations of over 40 books, for example for the authors Jostein Gaarder ( Sofies Welt ), Lucy and Stephen Hawking , Luis Sepùlveda , David Grossman , Elke Heidenreich , Amos Oz and Friedrich Ani . The book The Alchemy of the Snowfall by the clown Slava Polunin was also published in 2014 with pictures by Quint Buchholz.
Buchholz also publishes his own books as an author and illustrator and works as a freelance painter. Since 1981 his works have been shown at over 100 exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Books with his pictures have now been published in 25 languages and have been awarded numerous German and international prizes.
In addition, Quint Buchholz has created hundreds of images for book covers, audio books, posters, postcards and calendars from various publishers - including for Carl Hanser Verlag , Ravensburger Buchverlag, Suhrkamp Verlag , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Rowohlt Verlag , S. Fischer Verlag , Heye Verlag and Edition Incognito.
Quint Buchholz has worked as a set designer several times, for example in 2005 for Der Golem and 2007 for Caligula , both productions by Jochen Schölch at the Munich Metropolitan Theater . At the end of 2008, a theatrical version of his book The Collector of Moments was performed at the Théâtre de Cornouaille in Quimper , Brittany . The production traveled through ten cities in France. A German-language theatrical version of the play has also been on the program of the Munich Metropolitan Theater since 2011.
Since 2008, Quint Buchholz has been leading workshops on "Illustration" at the Bad Reichenhall Art Academy , the Academy of Fine Arts at the Alte Spinnerei in Kolbermoor and as part of the Swabian Art Summer at Irsee Monastery .
Quint Buchholz works in a studio in Munich-Haidhausen and lives in Ottobrunn near Munich.
Painting technique
Quint Buchholz's style takes up elements of photorealism , pointillism and magical realism .
Up until around 2002, Quint Buchholz painted almost all of his pictures using a technique that he has not used since then: he first sprayed several layers of translucent acrylic paint onto an ink sketch using a fixative atomizer on the painting surface (almost always paper). Then further layers of paint were applied with a thin drawing pen and details worked out. The granular structure of the sprayed paint was retained.
Since 2002, Quint Buchholz has been painting with brushes and acrylic paints, sometimes with oil paints on an acrylic background, sometimes on canvas, mostly on paper or cardboard.
The typical graininess of the pictures is created by poking the paint with very dry brushes of different widths.
Awards
- 1990: Troisdorf picture book prize for Sara, who wants to go to the circus (Text: Gudrun Mebs)
- 1991: Golden plaque from the Bratislava Biennale for Sara, who wants to go to the circus (Text: Gudrun Mebs)
- 1993: Sumchi (text: Amos Oz ) included in "The Most Beautiful German Books 1993" by the international jury of the Book Art Foundation
- 1994: New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Award for Sleep Well, Little Bear ( Sleep Well, Little Bear )
- 1997: Vlag en Wimpels for Nero Corleone ; Dutch award for the most beautiful children's book of the year for children over 6 years
- 1998: Bologna Ragazzi Award for The Collector of Moments ; international Italian picture book award
- 1999: Prix Enfantaisie for Le Collectionneur d'Instants (The Collector of Moments); French award for the best children's book of the year
- 1999: One of the ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year ( The New York Times Book Review ) for The Collector of Moments (collector moments)
- 2000: Mildred L. Batchelder Award for The Collector of Moments ; American Prize for Best Foreign Book
- 2005: Catholic children's and youth book prize for pike summer
- 2015: Premio Letteratura Ragazzi 36, Premio Speciale Albo Illustrato for Nel paese dei Libri (In the land of books); Italian special award for the best illustrated children's book
Books with pictures by Quint Buchholz were also on the honor list of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize and the shortlist of the German Youth Literature Prize several times. Several of his books have received awards from the Book Art Foundation and the lynx from DIE ZEIT / Radio Bremen.
Works
Publications
- Sleep well, little bear. Hanser Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-7941-3666-7 .
- The collector of the moment. Hanser Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-446-19077-5 .
- BookPicturesBook. Sanssouci Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-7254-1109-3 .
- with Verena Ballhaus , Nadia Budde , Jacky Gleich , Susanne Janssen , text: Bruno Blume : Whoever reads is. 2006, ISBN 3-356-01129-4 .
- The Bible in Pictures by Quint Buchholz. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2010, ISBN 978-3-579-06548-9 .
- Quint's animal life. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2012, ISBN 978-3-579-06659-2 .
- In the land of books. Hanser Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24320-0 .
- Magic words . Thiele Verlag / Sanssouci, 2016, ISBN 978-3-99056-001-3 .
- Sun, moon and evening star. Hanser Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25691-0 .
- The happiness of slowness . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019, ISBN 978-3-579-01466-1 .
- Everything has it's time. Hanser Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26559-2 .
Illustrated texts by other authors (selection)
- Hans-Ulrich Hirschfelder, Gert Nieke (Ed.): Night pieces . Suhrkamp Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-518-37987-9 .
- Gudrun Mebs: Sara who wants to go to the circus. Verlag Sauerländer, 1990, ISBN 3-7373-6140-1 .
- Hans-Ulrich Hirschfelder, Gert Nieke (Ed.): Head or Tails. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-518-38171-7 .
- Katherine Scholes: Sam's whale. Ravensburger Buchverlag, 1990, ISBN 3-473-52039-X .
- Katherine Scholes: The Night of the Birds. Ravensburger Buchverlag, 1992, ISBN 3-473-34466-4 .
- Amos Oz: Sumchi. Carl Hanser Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-423-62025-0 .
- Patricia MacLachlan: Scissors, stone, paper. Hanser Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-446-17806-6 .
- Roberto Piumini: Matti and the grandfather. Hanser Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-446-23696-1 .
- Jostein Gaarder: The card secret. Hanser Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-446-17710-8 .
- Elke Heidenreich: Nero Corleone. Hanser Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-446-18344-2 .
- Elke Heidenreich: At the South Pole, one thinks, it's hot. Hanser Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-423-62118-4 .
- Johanna, Martin Walser: At the water. Sanssouci Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-7254-1170-0 .
- Michael Krüger: Whoever catches the moonlight. Sanssouci Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-7254-1213-8 .
- Jutta Richter: Pike summer. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-446-20518-7 .
- Jean Giono: the man who planted trees. Sanssouci, 2006, ISBN 3-7254-1408-4 .
- Friedrich Ani: Gregor or Where Dreams Carry You . Sanssouci Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7254-1420-3 .
- Lucy and Stephen Hawking: The Secret Key to the Universe. CBJ Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-13284-5 .
- Elke Heidenreich: Nero Corleone returns. Hanser, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86717-674-3 .
- Friedrich Ani: Mathilda & Giacomo. Droemer Knaur, 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-19954-1 .
- Slava Polunin: The Alchemy of Snowfall . Academy of Fools, Moscow / London 2014. (Russian)
- Takashi Hiraide: The guest in the garden. Insel Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-17626-8 .
- Luis Sepúlveda: The slow way to happiness. Fischer Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7373-5161-4 .
- Matthias Reiner (ed.): The sea book. Suhrkamp / Insel Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-458-19481-1 .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1989: Zehntscheuer Rottenburg cultural association
- 1989: Wilhelmspalais Stuttgart
- 1995: Badische Landesbibliothek , Karlsruhe
- 1995: Gasteig Cultural Center Munich
- 1997 (also 1990, 1998, 2007, 2009): Museum Haus Löwenberg Gengenbach
- 1997: Ludwigshafen City Museum
- 1998 (also 2003, 2008): Literaturhaus München
- 1999: Städt. Gallery in the black monastery Freiburg
- 1999: Bibliothèque Municipale Strasbourg
- 2000: Taipei Art Gallery / Taiwan
- 2002: Wilhelm Busch Museum Hanover
- 2003: Literaturhaus Hamburg
- 2007: International Youth Library, Blutenburg Castle, Munich
- 2007: Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
- 2009: Otmar Alt Foundation Hamm
- 2010: Germering town hall
- 2013: Werkraum Schöpflin Lörrach
- 2013 (also 2017): Religious Education Center and Münster Heilsbronn
- 2014: Michaelskirche Ottobrunn
- 2014: Wackerbarth Castle near Dresden
- 2016 (also 2018): Städtische Galerie Rosenheim (participation)
- 2017: Maison Rhénanie-Palatinat Dijon
- 2017 (also 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012?): Kunstsommer Kloster Irsee (participation)
- 2018 (also 2017): ArtGallery Gallery for Illustration, Landsberg
- 2019: Fontane Festival , Neuruppin (participation)
literature
- Fedor Bochow: Quint Buchholz. In: Kurt Franz u. a. (Ed.): Children's and youth literature. A lexicon. Founded by Alfred Clemens Baumgärtner and Heinrich Pleticha. Corian-Verlag, Meitingen 2001, ISBN 3-89048-150-7 . (11th supplementary delivery February 2001).
- Susanna Partsch: Quint Buchholz. In: Rosemarie Zacher, Susanna Partsch: painter of the moment. How Monet & Co. discovered color. Berlin Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-5216-2 .
- Helmut Kronthaler (ed.): Quint Buchholz. In: Lexicon of illustration in German-speaking countries since 1945. edition text + kritik, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86916-191-4 .
- Quint Buchholz among others: The Art of Quint Buchholz. Exhibition catalog. Grimm Press, Taipei 1999, ISBN 957-745-262-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Quint Buchholz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Quint Buchholz's website
- Information on books and events by Quint Buchholz on the website of Hanser-Verlag
Individual evidence
- ^ Quint Buchholz - Authors - Hanser Literaturverlage. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Metropolitan Theater . Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
- ^ Johanna Kern: Quint Buchholz. March 29, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
- ↑ LECTURERS: Well-known artists provide professional and individual support for our students. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
- ↑ CHILDREN'S BOOKS; The Best Illustrated Children's Books 1999 . In: The New York Times . November 21, 1999, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 20, 2017]).
- ^ Admin: Batchelder Award winners, 1968-Present . In: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) . November 30, 1999 ( ala.org [accessed January 20, 2017]).
- ^ Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
- ↑ The jury from ZEIT and Radio Bremen presents: LUCHS 83 . In: The time . August 6, 1993, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 20, 2017]).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Buchholz, Quint |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German book author and illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolberg (Rhld.) , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany |