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Alfons Mitgutsch, known as Ali Mitgutsch, born August 21, 1935 in Munich, Germany, is a German author of picture books and professional advertising Illustrator. He is known as father of the Wimmelbilder-books.[1]

Life

As a child the Mitgutsch family was evacuated to Allgäu in World War II due airstrike back bombing on Munich.[2] Return the Munich he trained at Graphical Academy as a lithographer which is a former profession of manual photo editing, layout and printing. In the 1960s, Kurt Seelmann, a psychologist for children inspired him to create a special kind of picture books for children.

Mitgutsch became famous for his Wimmelbilder-books made for children. Opening such book at any page it shows lots of everyday scenes in a single painting across both pages on top.

Rundherum in meiner Stadt (Around in my city) released in 1968 is known as the first Wimmel-book in German-speaking countries.[3]

Mitgutsch is living in Munich, the city of his birth where he caught most of the inspirations for his paintings.[1]

Awards

  • 1960 nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Pepes Hut
  • 1961 nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Ulus abenteuerliche Reise zum Nordlicht
  • 1962 nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Nico findet einen Schatz
  • 1969 Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis for the picture book Rundherum in meiner Stadt
  • 1971 nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Bei uns im Dorf
  • 1972 nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Komm mit ans Wasser
  • 1978 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Rund ums Schiff (Around the ship)
  • 2003 Schwabing Art Award[4]

Publications

  • together with Ingmar Gregorzewski: Herzanzünder: Mein Leben als Kind, (heard lighter: my childhood) Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 2015, ISBN 978-3-423280570.
Picture Books
  • "Pepes Hut" (1959)
  • "Ulus abenteuerliche Reise" (1960 im Münchener Bilderbuch Verlag)
  • "Nico findet einen Schatz" (1961)
  • "Rundherum in meiner Stadt" (1968 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis)
  • "Bei uns im Dorf" (1970) (In our Village)
  • "Komm mit ans Wasser" (1971)
  • "Auf dem Lande"
  • "Rund ums Rad" (1975)
  • "Rund ums Schiff" (1977)
  • "Hier in den Bergen" (1979)
  • "Was wimmelt denn da" (What's teeming here)
  • "Die Hexe und die sieben Fexe"
  • "Unsere große Stadt" (1988)
  • "Ritterbuch" (Knightsbook)
  • "Engel in der Werkstatt"
  • "Aufbruch der Weihnachtsmänner"
  • "Mein schönstes Wimmelbilderbuch"
  • "Das große Piraten-Wimmelbuch"
  • "Alle spielen mit"
  • "Mein riesengroßes Piraten-Wimmelbuch"
  • "Mein riesengroßes Wimmel-Suchbuch" (2010)
  • "Fizzel baut eine Burg" (Fizzel is building a castle), Otto Maier, Ravensburg,1992, Reihe Kleine Ravensburger
  • "Vom Korn zum Brot" (From grain to bread)

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b (German) Boris Berg: Der Vater der Wimmelbücher – Zum 80. Geburtstag von Ali Mitgutsch, Bayerischer Rundfunk vom 21. August 2015 (YouTube)
  2. ^ (German) Wimmelbild-Erfinder Ali Mitgutsch: Da kommt er, der Träumer!, spiegel.de, Artikel vom 13.
  3. ^ (German) Magnus Klaue, Zur Renaissance der Wimmelbücher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 65, 18.
  4. ^ Auszeichnungen
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