Wilhelm Schlote

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Wilhelm Schlote (born March 4, 1946 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German draftsman , cartoonist , poster artist , children's book author and caricaturist .

biography

Schlote grew up in Essen and graduated from the Burggymnasium Essen there . His first art teacher was Heinz Mack (member of the artist group ZERO ), who recognized Wilhelm Schlote's talent for drawing early on. His mentor and friend Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen , who, as a literary critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), was the predecessor of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, was just as philosophically influential up to the Abitur . After graduating from high school, Schlote studied philosophy in Bonn until 1968 and then art at the Kassel art college until 1972 . From 1973 to 1978 he was a teacher in higher education in Kassel and Hamburg. Simultaneously with the decision to go to Paris , Schlote was offered a professorship at a German art college. In 1978, however, Schlote decided to move to France , where he lived partly in Nice , but mainly in Paris. In 1980 he exhibited for the first time in the Medical Faculty of St. Germain des Pres in Paris. Wilhelm Schlote has lived and worked in Cologne-Sülz since mid-2011 .

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In 1968 Schlote published the first of a total of 35 children's books. From 1976 he published cartoon postcards - the so-called "Schlote-Karten" - and in the same year received the German Youth Book Prize for Today I wish for a hippopotamus . Since 1980 Schlote has created a large number of city posters, calendars, posters and commissioned works. In 1991 he was awarded by the "Académie Calvet"; the award was presented to him by Catherine Deneuve and Claude Chabrol . In 2002 the art book Postscript was published for Deutsche Post . Schlote's cartoons and drawings have appeared in magazines such as Die Zeit , Die Welt , Rheinischer Merkur , The New Yorker , Le Monde and Le Figaro . He makes his city posters for almost all major German cities; but cities such as Amsterdam , Rome and New York City or anniversaries and events are also shown in the lines typical of Schlote. He himself describes his drawing style as "Krickelkrakel" and never denies his main motif, the stick figure . He also uses French red wine in his watercolors , which he applies to napkins . He also made advertisements for 4711 and posters for lottery companies and concrete producers and created design templates for Sonia Rykiel . He works regularly as an illustrator for the FAZ.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1982: Kunstverein Kassel
  • 2010: llust_ratio 3. Illustration in the newspaper - Eighteen illustrators and their work for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Art Association Rüsselsheim

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Gruyter-online - Article at De Gruyter accessed on November 9, 2017 from De Gruyter-online.de
  2. ↑ The last days as Pope: At noon he likes to play the piano . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from February 16, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Schlote, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid