Vitali Konstantinov
Vitali Konstantinov (* 1963 near Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ) is a German illustrator .
Life
Vitali Konstantinov first studied freehand drawing, painting and architecture in the USSR before studying graphics and painting as well as art history in Germany. Today he works there as a freelance illustrator in the areas of fiction for children and adults, non-fiction and editorial for German and international publishers.
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Konstantinov published numerous picture books and illustrations in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, South Korea and the USA. One focus of his work is the illustration of the classical texts by Gianni Rodari , Nikolai Leskow , Daniil Charms , the Brothers Grimm and the collaboration with the contemporary bestselling authors Maxim Biller , Wladimir Kaminer , Morten Ramsland and Jens Soentgen . In addition, texts are published from our own pen.
In this context, he took part in several international illustration exhibitions in Bologna, Bratislava, New York, Tehran and Tokyo, received numerous awards from Premio Štěpán Zavřel , the Bologna Book Fair, the Book Art Foundation »the most beautiful German books« and the 3X3 Children's Book Show (USA) and was nominated for the German Youth Literature Award 2011. His book How to Philosophize with Fire (together with Jens Soentgen ) was awarded both the Knowledge Book of the Year and the Emys Annual Non-Fiction Prize in 2016.
His customers include internationally known publishing houses. Including arsEdition, Aufbau, Beltz & Gelberg, Berlin-Verlag, Bloomsbury, Boje, Brigitte, Büchergilde Gutenberg, Carlsen, DTV, Kunstmann-Verlag, Little Tiger, Merlin Verlag, Peter Hammer Verlag, Piper, Sauerländer (Germany), Bajazzo, La Joie de Lire (Switzerland), Hampton-Brown, Houghton Mifflin, Klutz Press, McGraw-Hill, Rigby (USA), Darim, Sodam, Woongjin (South Korea), Grimm Press (Taiwan), Le Marasche, Edizioni EL (Italy), Media Vaca, OQO editora (Spain) etc.
Press reviews
From the stars to the dew. - Jens Soentgen, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag, 2010.
“It could be chosen as the most beautiful book of 2010: half-linen cover and exquisite paper, strict two-tone design and carefully structured type area. The illustrations in the style of elegant etchings by Vitali Konstantinov also give the scientific and philosophical considerations aesthetic weight. And a claim to eternity. "
Strange sites. - Daniil Charms, Berlin: Bloomsbury, 2009.
“[...] Konstantinov did masterly precision work. With grids like from the 70s (Japanese grid foil, in earlier times they were called Letraset, very chic). The ink strokes sit like a ones. The eyes are sweet and kind, the background is there. A cat always wants to go through the ceiling with three balloons. What some groundwork to make everything look easy. What a life for the author who nevertheless produced such happy nonsense. Incidentally, when Wladimir Kaminer heard of his illustrator's plight, he contributed his charms collection. After this odyssey, a small, wonderfully newly illustrated book by a great lateral thinker was created, a book with a great past, tragic-comical, absurd, out of date, and even after 70 years infatuated with the idea of creating impossible stuff with art, the Throwing thinking machine. "
A crazy morning. - Maxim Biller, Berlin: Bloomsbury, 2008.
“[…] If it weren't for the exquisite picture kaleidoscopes of Vitali Konstantinov, perfect like the old masters, who garnished cabbalistic set pieces with a matryoshka look, who provided little girls, endless lines and robots with worldly-experienced facial expressions that reveal that we are not just one here Healing book have to do. "
Enormous! - Morten Ramsland, Cologne: Buoy, 2007.
“It is a stroke of luck that the publisher has commissioned the illustrator Vitali Konstantinov, who is little noticed in this country, for this text by the successful Danish author Morten Ramsland. His nostalgic style of drawing, which is influenced by his Bessarabian origins, the Russian school and Italian models, may at first glance hide the fact that he is an excellent pictorial artist. The artist, who lives in Germany, takes over from the author the consistent child-mindedness, showing the parents disfigured by the masks corresponding to their swear words until they finally remember Peter. It shows the scraps that are flying and focuses the color, for example on the blood that is flowing (even if it's just tomato soup). Image and text together make it clear how life-threatening arguing really is from Peter's point of view and how his inciting the monsters, this comforting fantasy of omnipotence, is life-saving for him. [...] "
Works
- It is written: From cuneiform to emoji. Non-fiction. - Vitali Konstantinov, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 2019.
- The Sandman. Graphic novel based on ETA Hoffmann . - Vitali Konstantinov, Munich: Knesebeck, 2019.
- FMD: Life and Work of Dostoyevsky . The comic biography. - Vitali Konstantinov, Munich: Knesebeck, 2016.
- How to philosophize with fire. - Jens Soentgen, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag, 2015.
- Six long beards. - Mar Pavón, Hamburg: Aladin, 2015.
- Billy Black Beard. - Rüdiger Paulsen, Hamburg: Carlsen, 2015.
- Dostoyevsky's laughter. - Eckhard Henscheid , Munich: Piper, 2014.
- Pamphalon the Mountebank. - Nikolai Leskov , Seoul: Sodam Publishing, 2013.
- Planets, stars, galaxies. - Dieter B. Herrmann , Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 2013.
- The Emperor's New Clothes. - Hans Christian Andersen , Berlin: Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart , 2013.
- Seis barbudos. - Mar Pavon, Pontevedra: OQO editora, 2012.
- A min non me comas! - Margarita del Mazo, Pontevedra: OQO editora, 2011.
- Giacomo di cristallo. - Gianni Rodari , Trieste: EMME Edizioni, 2011.
- The book eater. - Cornelia Funke, Hamburg: Carlsen, 2011.
- From the stars to the dew. - Jens Soentgen, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag, 2010.
- Et alors? - Oleg Grigoriev, Geneva: La Joie de Lire, 2010.
- Strange sites. - Daniil Charms , Berlin: Bloomsbury, 2009.
- The captain's daughter. - Alexander Puschkin , Frankfurt: Gutenberg Book Guild, 2009.
- When Bernhard shot a hole in the sky. - Morten Ramsland, Cologne: Boje, 2009.
- A crazy morning. - Maxim Biller, Berlin: Bloomsbury, 2008.
- Mr. Grinberg & Co. - Gila Lustiger, Berlin: Bloomsbury / Berlin-Verlag, 2008.
- I am not from Berlin. - Wladimir Kaminer , Munich: Goldmann, 2007.
- Enormous! - Morten Ramsland, Cologne: Buoy, 2007.
- Kuei-Lei [puppets]. - Berlyn Chen, Taipei: Grimm Press, 2007.
- Alfred Nobel. - Liza Gia-zhen Wang, Taipei: Grimm Press, 2006.
- Goemul Selivan [the bugbear]. - Nikolai Leskov, Seoul: Darim Publishing Co., 2006.
- About the fisherman and his wife. - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hamburg: Carlsen, 2006.
- Pourquoi les chiens font comme ça? - Vitali Konstantinov, Geneva: La Joie de Lire, 2004.
- Beethoven: Great Composer. - Anna Carew-Miller, Philadelphia: Mason Crest, 2003.
- Darwin: British Naturalist. - Diane Cook, Philadelphia: Mason Crest, 2003.
- How it was Christmas. - Harald Nielsen, Hamburg: Carlsen, 2002.
- Antoni Gaudí. - Si-yuan Liu, Taipei: Grimm Press, 2002.
- The golden goose. - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hamburg: Carlsen, 2001.
Web links
- Literature by and about Vitali Konstantinov in the catalog of the German National Library
- official homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Konstantinov, Vitali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Odessa , Ukraine |