Ilon Wikland

Ilon Wikland ( born February 5, 1930 in Tartu, Estonia) is a Swedish- Estonian children's book illustrator. She was best known for her illustrations of the books by Astrid Lindgren.

Life

Ilon (actually: Maire - Ilon ) Wikland is the daughter of the engineer Max Pääbo and the artist Vida Juse. She spent her childhood in Haapsalu and came up with 14 years as a refugee in Sweden. She attended art schools in Stockholm and London, and worked as a graphic designer in publishing. My first illustration job to Astrid Lindgren was 1954 million, Ilon Wikland my million illustrated almost all of the books by Astrid Lindgren. Exceptions are the illustrations to Emil of Maple Hills, derived from the Sweden Björn Berg and Pippi Longstocking by Ingrid Vang Nyman from Denmark.

The illustration style of Ilon Wikland is unmistakable through richness of detail and the typical figures of children with snub noses and rounded cheeks. Most of the book 's illustrations are finely crafted pen and ink drawings in black and white. Your color illustrations ( book title and picture books ) are mostly with watercolor colored pen drawings, but sometimes elaborate watercolors. Because of motifs and colors often remind a little of the Swedish painter Carl Larsson. However, dark imagery as that of the Brothers Lionheart among their repertoire. Ideas to their figures it collects in everyday life. Model for their cartoon version of Karlsson on the roof for example, was a short, stocky man whom she had seen in the Halles of Paris and its robber figures in Ronja were inspired by the queue in front of a liquor store.

In addition to cooperation with Astrid Lindgren, Ilon Wikland but has also illustrated his own children's books and those of other authors. Some of these are: - cubit Karl Höjeberg, Hans Peterson, Elisabeth Hjortvid, Ann Mari Falk, Rose Lagercrantz, Doris organ, Malene Schwartz, Edith Unnerstad.

Ilon Wikland was awarded many prizes. 1969, for example, Elsa Beskow they got the plaque for her life's work.