Hans Arnold

Hans Arnold ( born April 22, 1925 in Sursee; † 25 October 2010) was a Swiss- Swedish animator and illustrator.

Life

Hans Arnold was trained at the Art School in Lucerne, where he was adopted in 1936. At first he worked as a cartoon animator. After a few years in Paris, he went to Sweden in 1947.

There he came into contact with the publisher Åhlén & Åkerlunds förlag, for whom he described as his first illustration of a man drew him that sat on a coffin and played the violin. For the general public, he made a name for himself as a horror and fright artist by the Swedish magazine Vecko - Revyn he illustrated the "shock of the week" Veckans Chock 1954-1979. He further illustrated the children 's books of Astrid Lindgren Allrakäraste Syster and Boris Karloff Midnattsryttare and " En konstig you " worked as a cartoon animator in the films " Matulda och Doctoral scholarships ", " Fetknopparna " and.

Typical of Hans Arnold's drawings is that he represented the everyday schreckeinjagend; same time, he illustrated children's and women lovable. He worked rich in detail and worked through with a train to Surrealism.