Ulrich Forchner

Ulrich Forchner (born December 1, 1949 in Tauchlitz ) is a German caricaturist and graphic artist .

Life

Forchner completed a professional training as a landscape designer from 1966 to 1968 , from 1970 to 1975 he studied book design and applied graphics under Walter Schiller and Albert Kapr, among others at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences . Since then he has been a freelance artist working, he draws cartoons, cartoons , designed mail art and design, among other posters , posters and packaging (z. B. for Bambina ). His drawings are published in the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , in the Leipziger Volkszeitung , in Spiegel and Focus as well as on ZDF and MDR .

Ulrich Forchner lives and works in Leipzig , he is married to the commercial artist Christina Forchner-Wießner.

Awards

• 1980: Silver hat (second place), Knokke-Heist World Cartoon , Belgium
• 1985: 1st prize, Anti-War Cartoon Salon , Kragujevac , Yugoslavia
• 1988: Bronze Satyr (third place), Satiricum Greiz , GDR

Works (selection)

• Forchner's Leporello. Part: Issue 1. For the exhibition "Karicartoon" Leipzig, autumn 1981 . Caricature & Press Design Section, VBK-DDR-Süd, Leipzig 1981, DNB 210464593 .
• [Illustrator]: Erich Loest : The grandma in the rubber dinghy. Stories . 2nd edition, Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1985, DNB 780224671 .
• [Illustrator]: Bernd-Lutz Lange : Liederliches Leipzig. A short city tour . Edition Peters, Leipzig 1985, DNB 974787833 .
• with Andreas J. Mueller and Rainer Schade : Humor sapiens. Cartoons . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1985, DNB 850749301 .
• [Illustrator]: Dietmar Kell (Hrsg.): Art and artists in aphorism . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 978-3-363-00447-2 .
• with Andreas J. Mueller: Freiräume. Two former GDR draftsmen observe the Federal Republic of Germany , foreword: Gerhard Polt . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989, ISBN 978-3-426-26428-7 .
• with Andreas J. Mueller: madness. Germany in a hurry fatherland , foreword: Dieter Hildebrandt . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-426-26500-0 .
• [Illustrator]: Bernd-Lutz Lange: Bonz throws and racing cardboard. The vernacular in the GDR . Forum-Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 978-3-86151-055-0 .
• [Illustrator]: Hans Oltzmann: Dreamtown Leipzig = Leipzig - the dream city . Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 978-3-933531-18-6 .
• Ursula Oehme (Ed.): My drawing life. Poster, illustration, cartoon, packaging, graphic . Druckhaus-Verlag, Gera 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813035-2-0 .
• [Illustrator]: Test the West! Caricaturists from East Germany. [Wilhelm Busch - German Museum for Caricature and Drawing, Hanover] (= Cartoon-Journal 1), Ed .: Cartoonlobby eV Schaltzeit-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941362-16-1 .
• [Illustrator]: Bernd-Lutz Lange, Tom Pauls : Nischd like out. Our favorite places in Saxony . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-03541-9 .

literature

• Forchner, Ulrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 42: Folgering - Fosman . KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-22782-0 , p. 272.
• Michael Heyder: "... they just want to play". About the draftsman Ulrich Forchner . In: Leipziger Blätter 62 (2013), ISSN  0232-7244 , pp. 73-75.

Web links

• Ulrich Forchner's website , accessed on October 26, 2019.
• Regina Katzer: Man with a scarf and hat. In: Under the roof. Leipziger Volkszeitung, October 25, 2019, accessed on October 26, 2019.
• Literature by and about Ulrich Forchner in the catalog of the German National Library