Lothar Meggendorfer

Lothar Meggendorfer ( born November 6, 1847 in Munich, † July 7, 1925 in Munich) was a German artist, children's book author, painter, draftsman and illustrator.

Life

In 1862 Meggendorfer took up the study of art at the Royal Academy in Munich, in 1866, he delivered the first reviews for the flying leaves and from 1868 for the Munich picture sheet. 1889 appeared the magazine from Lothar Meggendorfer 's funny pictures folder, which was continued from 1890 as a humorous monthly magazine, and from 1897 to 1925 as Meggendorfer leaves. Besides originated about 150 books that have been very successful in German-speaking and largely also in translations in England and America.

Its current popularity owes Meggendorfer primarily his game picture books - books with moving images. 1878, published in 1879, the book Living Pictures emerged as a Christmas gift for his children. This was followed by another 28 -drawing picture books, four transformation books and eight folding picture books. In these books different representations can be generated by moving parts. Frequently Meggendorfer is named as inventor of this genre of books, but pop-up picture books are in higher quantities already known from the mid-19th century.

However Meggendorfers movable books stand out next to the illustration by an ingenious paper mechanics, so that is considered a model impresses even under modern conditions of production, and to this day. Notably, with his name on the so-called German era in the design of movable books is connected, for which the Anglo-Saxon countries besides the label movable books the term pop - up's has formed. Many of today's creators of movable books - for example, Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart, Ron van der Meer, James Roger Diaz and David A. Carter - therefore see themselves in the tradition Meggendorfers and have the techniques to design more flexible books in the last three decades further developed. It has this, the concept of " paper engineer " paper engineer - formed.

The Movable Book Society in the United States confers regularly Meggendorfer Prize as an award for most outstanding editions. There Meggendorfer pleased the face of high prices for antiquarian spending special esteem. In Germany a number of his picture books appear as re-edition in Esslinger Verlag JF Schreiber.

Bibliography

• Lothar Meggendorfer - Annotated catalog of works; Books and related printing, games, Modellierbogen; Bibliography; books and related printings, games, cut-out sheets. Edited by Georg Friedrich and Reinhilde of cats home. comboxx edition, Berlin - Vienna - Zurich 2012