Ulrich Schröder (graphic designer)

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Ulrich Schröder at the Comiciade 2014 in Aachen

Ulrich Schröder (born April 4, 1964 in Aachen ) is a German graphic artist and comic artist . Among other things, he worked as an art director for Disney and became known as an illustrator of Disney comics and children's books.

Life

After graduating from the Viktoriaschule in Aachen, Ulrich Schröder began his career as a graphic designer in 1983. From 1984 to 1987 he worked in Frankfurt for the German headquarters of the Walt Disney Company as a comic artist. He then worked as a freelance commercial artist for Opel and Nesquik, among others , and designed the commercial comic Quicky and his friends .

In 1989 he moved to Paris as Art Director for Disney Publishing Worldwide . Here he worked as a graphic artist for 17 years and designed the artwork for the merchandising and promotional materials for the Disney brand . In addition to illustrations for the Disney comic books in various countries, he also drew for the French Le Journal de Mickey . Together with Daan Jippes , he designed Donald Duck short comics for newspapers and Goofy stories for the Danish Egmont publishing house .

In November 2006 Ulrich Schröder left Disney Europe and founded Studio Duckworks , where he works with numerous artists, designers and copywriters from the European Disney headquarters and, as an art director, also trains and educates Disney artists. The artist collective continues to look after numerous Disney productions on a freelance basis.

Ulrich Schröder designed numerous covers for Disney comic books, created templates for Disney characters and illustrated several Disney children's books, including Pedro the Little Airplane and Goliath in the Andes.

In 2010 he also designed a comic fashion story for the French Elle and caricatured numerous fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld (as the bad wolf), Donatella Versace (as Daisy Duck), Marc Jacobs (as Gustav Gans) and Jean Paul Gaultier (as Donald Duck), John Galliano (as Captain Hook), Sonia Rykiel (as Gundel Gaukeley), Dolce & Gabbana (as Micky and Goofy) and Alber Elbaz (as Franz Gans). In 2011 he designed a Disney T-shirt collection for the textile company C&A .

He was responsible for  the French Barks Library on behalf of the Glénat publishing house . Ulrich Schröder does not draw the Disney characters digitally today, but with old pens on antiquarian paper.

Ulrich Schröder is a popular guest at art and comic fairs, such as the Comiciade in Aachen or the Munich Comic Festival , where he is occasionally represented with his own exhibitions. As part of promotional campaigns by companies such as the Vienna department store Steffl , C&A, Butlers or the silk scarf manufacturer Codello, he regularly draws Disney characters in public; in television programs such as Ducks & Friends ( Disney Chanel ) he gave drawing classes to celebrities.

Ulrich Schröder has two brothers, one of whom is Harald Schröder .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009 The World of Disney , Sofia
  • 2013 Duckworks with Daan Jippes, Mohr-Villa , Munich
  • 2014 Duckworks at the Comiciade with Daan Jippes, Aachen

Works (selection)

  • Goliath in the Andes , children's book, illustration by Ivan Boix (color design)
  • Pedro the little plane, children's book, illustration
  • Planes , children's book, illustration
  • Who is who in Duckburg , cover
  • Detective agency mouse, illustration
  • La Mode Cartoon! Illustration for Elle magazine
  • Christmas and a Happy New Year , Kaufhaus Steffl , Vienna, Kärntner Straße (Christmas decoration together with Daan Jippes (brush work), Ivan Boix (color design))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ duckworks: Advertising. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  2. ^ Duckworks. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich Schroeder: Pedro. In: www.duckworker.com. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  4. ^ Ulrich Schroeder: Childrens Books. In: www.duckworker.com. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  5. ^ Spiegel Online, Hamburg Germany: Disney draftsman Schröder: When the Ducks were designers. (No longer available online.) In: Spiegel Online. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016 ; Retrieved May 5, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spiegel.de
  6. ↑ duckworks: ELLE - Making of Lagerfeld. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  7. ↑ duckworks: ELLE - Making of Donatella Versace. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  8. ↑ duckworks: ELLE - Making of Marc Jacobs. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  9. ↑ duck works: ELLE - Making of Jean Paul Gaultier. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  10. ↑ duck works: ELLE - Making of John Galliano. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  11. ↑ duck works: ELLE - Making of Sonia Rykiel. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  12. ↑ duckworks: ELLE - Making of Dolce & Gabbana. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  13. ↑ duckworks: ELLE - Making of Alber Elbaz. In: duckworks.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  14. ↑ styleranking.de: Disney artist Ulrich Schröder: "My Mickey Mouse cover at every kiosk". In: styleranking - your fashion community. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Ulrich Schröder - COMIC FESTIVAL MUNICH. In: COMICFESTIVAL MUNICH. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Eckhard Hoog: With Donald Duck to a dream career. In: Aachener Zeitung. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Comiciade 2016: Donald Duck on the house wall? In: Aachener Zeitung. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Ulrich Schröder - COMIC FESTIVAL MUNICH. In: COMICFESTIVAL MUNICH. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  19. ^ Lee Beck: First Aachen Comiciade opened in the Ludwig Forum. In: Aachener Nachrichten. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Gazette.cc: STEFFL welcomes Disney! In: gazette.cc. November 20, 2014, accessed May 6, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Butlers: A guest of honor from Disneyland. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  22. ↑ With Walt Disney and Gmund to the Oktoberfest | gmund.local. In: de.gmund.com. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
  23. ^ Ducks & Friends. In: Disney Channel Shows. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  24. ^ Art - Mohr-Villa Freimann. In: www.mohr-villa.de. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Julia Gröbbels: Popeye and Donald Duck give off their funny business cards. In: Aachener Zeitung. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen