Susan Single
Susan Einzig (born November 16, 1922 in Berlin ; died December 25, 2009 in London ) was an English book illustrator . She was only known for her illustrations for the children's book Tom's Midnight Garden ( When the clock struck thirteen ) by Philippa Pearce in 1958 .
Life
Suzanne Einzig grew up as a child in a middle-class Berlin family. In spring 1939 she and her brother were separated from the family when part of the Jewish children from the German Reich were rescued to Great Britain with the Kindertransport . While her mother survived the persecution, her father died in the Theresienstadt ghetto .
Only in 1939 was she able to begin her training in woodcut with Gertrude Hermes and John Farleigh at London's Central School of Arts and Crafts . She studied drawing and illustration with Bernard Meninsky and William Roberts . During the war she worked as a technical draftsman and was then initially unemployed.
One of her first clients was Noel Carrington , for whom she illustrated Norah Pulling's Mary Belinda and the Ten Aunts in 1945 using a new type of autolithography technique , using a plate for each of the six colors. In 1946 she illustrated an English edition of Mozart on her trip to Prague . By Pulling, Miss Richards' mouse was also published in 1948 with her illustrations. In the 1950s she made frequent contributions to the Radio Times when it was still printed in black and white, as well as to House and Garden and Picture Post . At the "Camberwell School of Art" she got a part-time job as an art teacher. Euan Uglow and Terry Scales and musicians such as Humphrey Lyttelton and Wally Fawkes became known from their students . In Camberwell she met John Minton and Keith Vaughan . Minton was the most influential in their work. In 1958, Philippa Pearce received the Carnegie Medal for the fantasy book Tom's Midnight Garden published by Oxford University Press , which was also thanks to her, since she had made Pearce's rooms vivid and raised the house by one floor.
From 1959, she worked under Lawrence Gowing for more than thirty years at the Chelsea College of Art and Design , where her students included Sue Coe and Emma Chichester Clark, as well as the actor Alan Rickman . More specific book-making assignments were Alphonse Daudet 's Sappho. A Picture of Life in Paris in 1954 by the Folio Society and a new edition of E. Nesbit's The Bastables in 1966 by Nonesuch Press .
Only remained unmarried and had a son and a daughter, Hetty.
Other books illustrated by Einzig
- Rex Warner , The vengeance of the gods , 1954.
- Eleanor Spence , Lillipilly Hill , 1960.
- Elizabeth Poston , The Children's Song Book , 1961.
- Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre , 1962.
- Hester Burton, Her First Ball , 1963.
- Meindest DeJong , The tower by the sea , 1964.
- Gillian Avery , In the Window-Seat: A Selection of Victorian Stories by Gillian Avery, and Susan Einzig (Hardcover - 1965).
- Margaret Love, An explorer for an aunt , 1967.
Web links
- Literature by and about Susan Einzig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martin Salisbury Susan Einzig , obituary in: The Guardian, January 5, 2010
- Susan Einzig , obituary in: The Times, February 27, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emma Chichester Clark , with German translations at DNB
- ↑ Hetty Single , website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Only, Susan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2009 |
| Place of death | London |