Illustrator

An illustrator operates one of the applied arts, which is related to the design. He draws, paints, watercolors and manufactures of prints to illustrate a book, a magazine, or other documents, and printed matter ( illustrate ).

The term Illustrated came to the mid-19th century. Following the example of the Illustrated London News and the Illustration (Newspaper ) (Paris ) appeared from 1843 in Leipzig publisher JJ Weber, the first illustrated periodical in Germany.

Vocational Illustrator

Rough estimates suggest that around 80 percent of Illustrators freelance work world is no longer in the "classical" Illustration areas such as literature illustration, but in the areas of advertising, packaging and illustrations for periodicals.

A major problem of periodicity is the increasing use of so-called " Stock Illustration ". Classically trained illustrators who find no livelihood in the literature illustration ready for a small fee of illustrations, which are distributed via so-called " stock houses ". In the United States since the early 1990s broke the illustration market for editorial illustration together largely. The " stock houses " gave her illustrations, available for a very small fee to the client and so undercut the editorial illustrators and their agents. This dumping wave reached ten years later Europe, so that the illustration outside of the commercial use is hardly lucrative here.

Another branch of the illustration work includes the book and novel illustrators. As a freelance artist, or as solid members of a publishing house, they illustrate the covers of books and single external illustrations for novels and poems.

In Germany the interests of illustrators, among others, of the illustrators eV ( IO ) can be represented as an association. The IO is a registered association, in turn, a member of the European Illustrators Forum (EIF ). On the website of Illustrators organization can also search for illustrators for projects. In addition, information be offered to all job-related topics, such as usage rights, compensation, and legal assistance.

Major illustrators

USA

  • Norman Rockwell (* 1894 in New York; † November 8, 1978 in Stockbridge )
  • Frank Frazetta ( born 1928 in New York; † 2010)
  • Josh Kirby ( born 1928 in Waterloo, † 2001 in Shelf Anger)
  • Boris Vallejo ( born 1941 in Lima, Peru)
  • Roger Dean ( born 1944 in Ashford, Kent)
  • Alan Lee ( born 1947 in Middlesex, England)
  • Patrick Woodroffe
  • John Jew Palencar ( born 1957 in Fairview Park )
  • Julie Bell (born 1958 in Beaumont )

Europe

  • Erhard Reuwich (also Reeuwyck, Reeuwich, Rewich; * around 1450 in Utrecht, † after 1505 in Mainz )
  • Mihály Zichy (* 1827 Zala, † 1906 in Saint Petersburg )
  • Gustave Doré (* 1832 in Strasbourg, † 1883 in Paris)
  • Fritz Birkmeyer (* 1848 in Rothenburg, † 1897 in Munich), children's book Illustrator
  • Richard Gutschmidt (* 1861 in Neuruppin, † 1926 in Munich)
  • Oskar Herrfurth ( born February 5, 1862 in Merseburg, † 1934 in Weimar)
  • Sven Hedin (* 1865 in Stockholm, † 1952 in Stockholm )
  • Karl Staudinger (* 1874 in Wiesbaden, † 1962 in Sonneberg )
  • Franz Karl Basler - Kopp ( * 1879 in Basel, † 1937 in Lucerne)
  • Ernest Shepard (* 1879 in London, † 1976 in Midhurst )
  • Max float ( * 1895 in Leipzig, † 1960 in Leipzig)
  • Hans Fronius ( born September 12, 1903 in Sarajevo, † March 21 1988 in Vienna)
  • Gerhart Kraaz ( May 22nd, 1909 in Berlin, † August 26, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main )
  • Gunter Böhmer ( born 1911 in Dresden, † 1986 in Lugano), book illustrator and lecturer
  • Gerhard Goßmann (* 1912 in Guben, † 1994 in Bad Saarow )
  • Heiner Rothfuchs ( born June 18, 1913 in Wünschendorf / Elster in Thuringia † 27 July 2000), book illustrator and lecturer
  • Tove Jansson (* 1914 in Helsinki, † 2001 ibid.)
  • Werner Klemke ( born March 12, 1917 in Berlin -Weissensee, † August 26, 1994 ibid ), book illustrator and professor in Berlin-Weissensee
  • Wilhelm Maier- Solgk ( born 1919 Maxgrün, † 2007 in Munich )
  • Ota Janecek (* 1919 in Pardubice, † 1996 in Prague)
  • Horst Janssen ( born 1929 Oldenburg, † 1995 in Hamburg)
  • Tomi Ungerer ( born 1931 in Strasbourg )
  • Jürgen Wölbing ( born January 14, 1942 in Breslau, † 3 September 2009 in Schoeneck )
  • Chris Foss ( Christopher " Chris " F. Foss, born March 16, 1946 in Devon, England)
  • Manfred Gruber ( born 1951 in Erkshausen )
  • Braldt Bralds (* 1951 in Hoogkerk )
  • Schwarwel (* 1969 in Leipzig)
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