The German illustrator had been at heart during his career to use his art to approach unusual subjects with his young audience: death, the sense of life, but also the search for justice.
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He went “to see the night” definitively. The illustrator of the children’s classics Wolf Erlbruch died on December 11 at the age of 74, announced its German publisher Hanserratur Thursday, December 15.
“With him, we lose an artist with inimitable visual language, whose unusual use of the [pictorial] technique continues to set the tone today” underlines Hanster Literatur , who published most of the works of the designer of the little taupe who wanted to know who had him Done on the head, of stirring in Madame K, of the duck, the death and the tulip, or even to see at night.
“Our house and, more broadly, the youth edition lose a large figure” reacted his main French publisher, Milan Jeunesse, recalling that the illustrator was “multipressed”.
Unusual subjects
After a flourishing beginning of career in advertising, Wolf Erlbruch had turned to children’s illustration in 1985, with so much success. The illustrator, who sometimes also took the pen for in certain albums, A – among others – received twice the Prize for the Bologna Youth Book Fair (in 1999 for witch’s kitchen and in 2004 for the big question), Twice the witch prize (in 1994 for the little taupe who wanted to know who made him on his head, then in 2005 for the big question), as well as two other awards for the whole of his career: the Hans Christian Prize Andersen Illustration in 2006 and the Astrid-Lindgren commemorative prize in 2017.
Born on June 30, 1948 in Wuppertal, the German illustrator had had at heart during his career to use his art to approach unusual subjects with his young audience: death, the sense of life, but Also the search for justice, in the little mole who wanted to know who had done him on his head – his bestseller, about a mole putting herself in search of the one who left him a huge droppings on his head .