Tim S. Weiffenbach

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Tim S. Weiffenbach (born December 31, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German illustrator .

Life

After graduating from the Free Waldorf School in Frankfurt in 1988 and completing his civil service, Tim S. Weiffenbach studied visual communication at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences from 1991 to 1995 . He completed his diploma with a focus on illustration with Ute Osterwalder. Today he lives and works in Steinbach (Taunus) . His clients include advertising agencies, publishers and direct customers.

Tim Weiffenbach is a founding member and was chairman of the illustrators' organization from 2004 to 2014 and is the initiator of the Frankfurt regional group. In 2005 he was a jury member for the illustration anthology Freistil 2 - Best of commercial Illustration .

Since 2008 he has been a lecturer in the illustration department at the Academy of Visual Arts in Frankfurt am Main. In 2009, at the invitation of Werner Holzwarth , he took on a teaching position for illustration at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Since the end of 2009 he has been a permanent member of the editorial team at freistil-online.de, the German online portal for illustration. In 2012, at the invitation of designaustria, he was a member of the jury for the renowned Joseph Binder Awards . In 2013 Tim Weiffenbach acted as a jury member for the 3rd “Rüsselsheim Illustration Prize”, as part of the events of the illust_ratio series and at the international Tschuttiheftli competition in Switzerland. In 2015, at the invitation of the “Association of Illustrators” (AOI), he took over the jury work in the “research and knowledge communication” section of the World Illustration Awards.

honors and awards

In 2007 Weiffenbach became an honorary member of the Society of Illustrators New York, USA. In 2015 he was made an honorary member of the Illustratoren Organization eV.

Exhibitions

  • 2009 Wäscher Homage : Munich Comic Festival, Forum at the Deutsches Museum
  • 2008 Football Heroes see Red! : UEFA Euro IBC Broadcast Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria; “Orell Füssli”, Lucerne, Switzerland; "Rösslitor - Orell Füssli", Gall, Switzerland; Winterthur Cultural Center Alte Kaserne, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • 2006 Metamorphosis : Pictoplasma Character Walk Galerie Boehm, Berlin
  • 2006 160 years of Struwwelpeter : Munich Comic Festival, Forum at the Deutsches Museum; Ultra Comix, Nuremberg; Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
  • 2004–2005 Lust 36 illustrators: Gebrüder Bauer Frankfurt; Gallustheater Frankfurt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Call for Entries - World Illustration Awards 2015 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on freistil-online.de on February 17, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freistil-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Weiffenbach, Tim S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main