Ursula Kirchberg

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Ursula Kirchberg 2010 in Troisdorf in the picture book museum Burg Wissem

Ursula Kirchberg (born May 6, 1938 in Hamburg ) is a German illustrator with a focus on children's book illustrations.

Life

Ursula Kirchberg grew up in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. From 1957 to 1961 she studied drawing, painting, writing and typography at the Werkkunstschule Hamburg, today's Department of Design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , with Wilhelm M. Busch and Gisela Bührmann , among others . A three-month study visit to Amsterdam followed in 1962.

After marrying the writer Uwe Friesel in 1967 and spending a year in Rome in 1968, she became the mother of a son in 1971. Years of intensive work followed, which were not interrupted by the divorce in 1976 and the subsequent move to Hamburg-Altona. Ursula Kirchberg became a member of the Hamburg illustrator group in 1978. In 1981 she moved into her own house in Lamstedt near Cuxhaven , where she still lives today.

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Ursula Kirchberg's published work began with the cover picture for Ester Ringnér-Lundgren's Klein Trulsa at Klein's printing and publishing company in 1961 and illustrations for Romain Gary's Lady L. at the Gutenberg Book Guild in 1962. In 1967 her first picture book Die alte Linde Gundula on texts by Lore Leher was published by Sigbert Mohn-Verlag, Gütersloh, with which she was selected for the German Youth Literature Prize in 1968 , which she succeeded again in 1969, 1977 and 1979.

In 1970 she began her long-term collaboration with Ellermann Verlag , then Munich , where Ursula Kirchberg's first book based on her own concept, Dagobert , was also published. In 1972 she illustrated her first school book for Hermann Schroedel Verlag . In 1976 her children's books Käpt'n Hein und der Klabautermann and Selim and Susanne appeared , and in 1977 Fridolin .

From 1987 to 1996 Ursula Kirchberg illustrated a literary series of classical texts for Gerstenberg Verlag , among others by Theodor Storm ( Pole Poppenspäler ) and Theodor Fontane ( Grete Minde ). In 2004, Thienemann Verlag published illustrations for Otfried Preußler's Bread for Myra . In 2010 her first picture book, Die Alte Linde Gundula , which has been out of print for decades, appeared in a new edition at Monumente Publications of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

Works (selection)

Illustrations

Children's books

picture books

Texts & illustrations

  • Dagobert: A picture story . Ellermann Verlag, 1970
  • Consolation for Miriam . Ellermann Verlag, Munich 1997. ISBN 978-3-7707-6389-4
  • The Bogumil car . Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 3-522-43299-1
  • One, two, three: picture stories to well-known counting verses . Bajazzo Verlag 2002. ISBN 3-907588-31-2

Awards, selection

German Youth Literature Prize, shortlist

  • 1967: The old linden tree Gundula
  • 1969: Isidor and Adebar
  • 1977: Fridolin
  • 1979: Selim and Susanne

Other awards

  • 1971: Premio critici in erba , Bologna, for Dagobert
  • 1984: Children's literature prize from the city of Berlin's commissioner for foreigners for Selim and Susanne

Exhibitions, selection

  • 1989: Ursula Kirchberg. Book illustration 1970-1988 , Bornheim Central Library, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1991: Grete Minde , Town Hall, Tangermünde
  • 1993: Ursula Kirchberg - picture books and illustrations for texts by Theodor Storm , Goethe-Institut , Nancy
  • 1994: Ursula Kirchberg , picture book museum Burg Wissem , Troisdorf
  • 2001: Ursula Kirchberg - 30 years of book illustration , art school, Lingen
  • 2020: Robber Hotzenplotz, Krabat and The Little Witch Otfried Preußler - figure creator and storyteller Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen

Further solo exhibitions in numerous cities in Germany, participation in group exhibitions in various European countries and Japan.

literature

  • Linda Schmitz-Kleinreesink, Christine Vogt (eds.): Robber Hotzenplotz, Krabat and The Little Witch Otfried Preußler - figure creator and storyteller , Oberhausen 2020. ISBN 978-3-932236-44-0

Others

In 2004 the picture book museum in Troisdorf acquired original illustrations by Ursula Kirchberg from 1967 to 2003 and brought them together in the Ursula Kirchberg collection. In 2004 they were shown together for the first time in the exhibition Menschen-Bilder .

Voices on Ursula Kirchberg

  • “Because of the reduced or nonexistent text, the images in Ursula Kirchberg's books gain all the more meaning and are all the more important as carriers of the story. With the selection of subject matter from their surroundings the books and illustrations place at the same time witness to everyday life and children's worlds the past forty years. " Dr. Maria Linsmann, director of the picture book museum Burg Wissem

Web links

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  • Exhibition catalog: People-Pictures. Ursula Kirchberg Collection . Edited by Maria Linsmann for the Troisdorf picture book museum, 2004. ISBN 3-9809301-1-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review at kunstbuchanzeiger.de , accessed December 11, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
  2. ^ Exhibition catalog: People-Pictures. Ursula Kirchberg Collection. P. 4, foreword
personal data
SURNAME Kirchberg, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg