Wolf Erlbruch

Wolf Erlbruch (born June 30, 1948 in Wuppertal ) is a postmodern illustrator and children's book author.

Life

Wolf Erlbruch studied from 1967 to 1974 with a focus on drawing at the Folkwang Hochschule für Gestaltung in Essen and has been internationally successful as an illustrator in the advertising industry since 1974. Erlbruch taught from 1990 to 1997 as a professor of illustration at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , from 1997 to 2009 as a professor in the department of architecture-design-art at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and from 2009 to 2011 as professor for illustration at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen .

Erlbruch now lives with his family in Wuppertal.

Artistic creation

In the 1980s Erlbruch began to illustrate and later write children's books. His first book was published in 1985: The Eagle That Didn't Want to Fly . His works cover such big topics as the story of creation (In the Beginning) or the meaning of life ( The Big Question ) , death ( duck, death and tulip ), but also the simple story of the little mole who wanted to know who gave him upside down . All sorts of animals gather in Erlbruch's books - in a picture-perfect way - but he designs them in a bizarre, expressive way that makes the books aesthetically appealing to adults too. In 2007 he designed his first theater set with stage design and costumes for a dramatization of Max Kruse's Urmel from the ice for the Wuppertal theaters .

Awards

• 1992 Illustration prize for children's and youth books for Leonard
• 1993 German Youth Literature Prize (picture book category) for Das Bärenwunder
• 1996 Schnabelsteherpreis for Mrs. Meier, the blackbird
• 1998 Silver brush for Mrs. Meier, the blackbird
• 1999 LUCHS of the year for night
• 1999 Zilveren stylus for Leonard
• 2000 Troisdorf picture book prize for a new ABC book for children
• 2003 From the Heydt Culture Prize of the City of Wuppertal
• 2003 Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig
• 2003 German Youth Literature Award (special award)
• 2004 Silver Brush for The Creation
• 2005 Zilveren stylus for Waarom jij er bent
• 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Prize
• 2006 Toad of the Month September for Olek shot a bear and sewed a hat out of the fur
• 2008 Zilveren stylus for duck, death and tulip
• 2014 eoplauen award
• 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize

Works (selection)

• James Aggrey : The eagle that didn't want to fly , translated by Alfons Michael Dauer. Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal 1985, ISBN 3-7795-7390-3 .
• Werner Holzwarth : About the little mole who wanted to know who hit him on the head , Hammer, Wuppertal 1989, ISBN 3-87294-407-X ; NA 2014: ISBN 978-3-7795-0503-7 .
• The Horrible Five , 1990
• Leonard , 1991
• The Bear Miracle , 1992
• John Saxby : The Adventures of Eduard Speck . Hanser Verlag, 1993. ISBN 3-446-17427-3
• Gioconda Belli : The Butterflies Workshop 1994
• Mrs. Meier, the blackbird , 1995
• Ten green herrings , 1995
• John Saxby: New Adventures from Eduard Speck . Hanser Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3-446-18197-0
• Thomas Winding : My little dog Mister , 1996
• Valérie Dayre : The Man- Eater , 1996
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Das Hexeneinmaleins , 1998
• Thomas Winding: My little dog Mister in the night , 1998
• Mirjam Pressler : The wondrous journey of the little toad , 1998
• Angels and other poultry 1998
• At night , 1999
• Karl Philipp Moritz : New ABC book , Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-95614-225-3 .
• Bart Moeyaert : In the beginning , 2003
• Dolf Verroen : Heaven for the Little Bear 2003
• The big question , 2004
• Bart Moeyaert: Olek shot a bear , 2006
• Ente, Tod und Tulpe , Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88897-461-8 .
• with Heinz Janisch : The King and the Sea , 21 short stories. Sanssouci , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8363-0118-3 .
• Gottfried Benn : Ratten , 2009.
• James Joyce : The Cats of Copenhagen , translated by Harry Rowohlt , Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24159-6 .
• Oren Lavie : The Bear That Wasn't There, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88897-970-5 .

literature

• Fedor Bochow: Erlbruch, Wolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 395.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolf Erlbruch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Wolf Erlbruch at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klas Libuda: Mole creator honored with Lindgren Prize . Ed .: Rheinische Post . April 5, 2017, p. B7 : "With humor and warmth that are deeply rooted in humanistic ideals, his work presents the universe on our scale ... Jury statement ..."