Peter Sís

Peter Sís ( born May 11, 1949 in Brno ) is an American picture book artists and animators of Czech origin.

Sís studied from 1968 to 1974 at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. During the Prague Spring in 1968 he ran own beat and rock music radio program and made ​​illustrations for a political student magazine. 1976 wrote his first book illustrations to fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. 1977 was followed by studies at London's Royal College of Art during a working stay in the USA in 1984, decided Sís not to return to his homeland. In the same year, the poster design for the film Amadeus by Milos Forman was born.

In 2003 he was MacArthur Fellow.

Works

  • Follow your dream. The incredible story of Christopher Columbus. Translated from English by Michael Krüger. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1992.
  • The little whale and the sea. Pestalozzi Children's Foundation ( Foundation Secretariat), Zurich 2000.
  • Komodo. Where the little dragon live. Translated from English by Michael Krüger. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1994.
  • The three golden keys. Translated from English by Michael Krüger. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-446-18318-6.
  • The Starry Messenger. A picture book about the life of the famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and physicist Galileo Galilei. Translated from English by Tatjana Michaelis. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-446-18689-7.
  • The incredible story by Jan Welzl. Translated from English by Michael Krüger. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-446-18450-3.
  • Tibet. The secret of the red box. Translated from English by Michael Krüger. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1998.
  • Rhino rainbow. Translated from English by Uwe- Michael Gutzschhahn. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-446-19735-0.
  • Madlenka. Translated from English by Uwe- Michael Gutzschhahn. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-446-19887-6.
  • The Tree of Life. A picture book about the life of Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist and philosophers. Translated from English by Hartmut Schickert. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-446-20523-9.
  • The wall. How was it growing up behind the Iron Curtain. Translated from English by Michael Krüger. Hanser Verlag, München [ua ] 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20892-6.
  • The Conference of the Birds. Translated from English by Brigitte Jakobeit. Aladin, Hamburg 2013.

Awards

Beat music Amadeus (Film) Bologna Children's Book Fair Perlentaucher Integrated Authority File
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