Ulf Harten

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Ulf Harten (* 1954 in Hamburg ) is a German comic artist and cartoonist .

Life

Harten comes from a family of artists. His father was a stone sculptor , his mother wrote poetry, his grandmother drew and his sister is the actress and director Meike Harten .

Harten completed his Abitur, community service and is self-taught as a visual artist. His first great illustration job he received in 1983 through the mediation of the NDR -Moderators Lutz Ackermann for illustrations to the book club awards which over 300,000 sold times. After numerous other publications in books, notebooks and anthologies, his big city satire The Sea Cucumber Principle was published by Carlsen Verlag in 1990 . In the 1990s he organized the INC group exhibition Comics in the Kiez every year . They began in 1992 - in an occupied house, the former Caesar's Palace, on the Reeperbahn - with what was until then the largest comic exhibition in Germany under the title In the beginning was the line .

His Hamburg hidden objects , trashy and detailed city panoramas, which he has published every year since 1999 as the comic calendar Hamburg Total , are particularly well known . In 2005 he illustrated the Langenscheidt football dictionary "Fußball - Deutsch" by Gerhard Delling . In January 2015, Harten presented his “Hamburg Total” retrospective with 50 motifs for the first time in the Factory of the Arts in Hamburg-Hamm . The follow-up exhibition "Hamburg total 2" in the Fabrik der Künste is planned between February 26 and March 8, 2020.

He lives and works together with the author and illustrator Doris Dörr - alias "DM Trocken" - in a listed tower of the former Palmin factory on the Jaffe-Davids Canal in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg .

style

Harten says of himself that he is “one of the last free-running examples of analogue comic book culture [...]” and sees himself in the tradition of the comic artist Carl Barks . He explains his working technique as follows: “I make the preliminary drawings with a pencil and an eraser, then I use the brush and ink to make a line drawing on drawing paper, which is then colored with markers”. He describes his genre as “city caricatures” or “caricature of architecture”.

Publications (selection)

  • Club Sayings , Illustrator: Ulf Harten, Verlag Hanseatische Edition (1983)
  • The sea cucumber principle (2 volumes, Carlsen Verlag 1990)
  • Langenscheidt Football-German / German-Football - For fans and those who want to become one , Gerhard Delling, Langenscheidt (2005)
  • Hamburg Total - The Book - City Caricatures by Ulf Harten , Junius-Verlag (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Harten: "Hamburg Total - The Exhibition" , kultur-port.de of January 26, 2015
  2. ↑ Lustig gegen die Wand , taz.de, November 20, 1998
  3. ^ The Hidden Object Satier , Kieler Nachrichten of January 24, 2015
  4. ^ Cozy pedestrian crossings , taz.de, April 8, 1997
  5. ↑ Media Capital Hamburg: The Media and Cultural History of the Metropolitan Region from the Foundation to the Present , Thomas E. Fischer, Verlag tedition, Hamburg (2014)
  6. ↑ Hamburg in the cartoon , abendblatt.de of January 14, 2015
  7. ↑ Events. "HAMBURG TOTAL 2". Comic exhibition by Ulf Harten with DM Trocken , fabrikderkuenste.de (accessed January 10, 2020)
  8. ↑ Ulf Harten lets houses speak with subversive humor , Abendblatt.de, May 3, 2014
  9. ↑ This is how Hamburg is a lot of fun , Abendblatt.de from December 13, 2019
  10. ↑ A homage to the hometown of Hamburg , Die Welt Hamburg, January 15, 2015, No. 12, p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Harten, Ulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nillosan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg