Brian Wildsmith

Brian Wildsmith ( born January 22, 1930 Penistone, South Yorkshire, England) is an English painter and children's book illustrator.

Life

Wildsmith was in a small mining village Born in Sheffield and went to high school. In 1946 he enrolled at the age of seventeen years at Barnsley School of Art and remained there until 1949., Where he met his future wife, the daughter of an employee of Wentworth Woodhouse. At the Barnsley School of Art, he won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he studied under William Coldstream until 1952.

After graduating in London Wildsmith completed his military service. In 1955 he married and started as an art teacher at the London Selhurst High School before he started his own business in 1957. For the publisher John Murray and other Wildsmith designed book covers. In addition, he was until 1964 as a book illustrator in the style of lineart for publishers, we Penguin Books and Oxford University Press worked. During these years he also taught once a week at Maidstone College of Art, which is part of the Kent Institute of Art & Design today.

From 1971 he lived and worked Wildsmith with his wife and four children in the hills of Provence in southern France in a village between Cannes and Grasse.

Interaction and effects

Since 1957, Wildsmith, was promoted by various publishers of children's books in England, particularly by Oxford University Press. His children's book ABC was founded in 1962 awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal.

In 1994, a Brian Wildsmith Art Museum established south of Tōkyō in Izu - oncogene, which, for example, 2005 was one and a half million visitors. In the museum, 800 of his works were shown.

Publications

  • ABC. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England in 1962.
  • 123 Oxford University Press, Oxford, England in 1965.
  • The Lion and the Rat. 1967? German: The Lion and the Rat, a fable of Lafontaine. Books Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • German: The small wild duck. Atlantis Verlag, Zurich / Freiburg im Breisgau 1973, ISBN 3-7611-0405-7.
  • Brian Wildsmith (1930 - ). A Short Autobiography. Gale Research, Detroit 1988.

Exhibition catalogs

  • Brian Wildsmith, Tōkyō 1995.
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