About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Wilhelm Busch, Wolf Erlbruch, Jamiri, Bruno Paul, David Fuleki, Bettina von Arnim, Edward Theodore Compton, Gero Trauth, Walter Trier, Thomas Thiemeyer, Kurt Wiese, Sulamith Wulfing, Margret Rey, Heinrich Zille, Fermin Rocker, Kurt Werth, Gerd Arntz, Anke Katrin Eissmann, Edward Harrison Compton, Heinz Edelmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert, E. O. Plauen, Marcus Pfister, Philipp Grot Johann, Heinrich Leutemann, Olaf Robrecht, Christoph Niemann, Horus Engels, Josef Madlener, Hans Jurgen Press, Thomas Theodor Heine, Hans Waldemar Wessolowski, Lothar Meggendorfer, Jurgen Ziewe, Hermann Vogel, Jenny Dolfen, Hannes Hegen, Claus Bergen, Axel Scheffler, Woldemar Friedrich, Florian Bertmer, Marian Kretschmer, Ludwig Burger, Franz Anton von Scheidel, Jutta Bauer, Adolf Schrodter, Franz Altschuler, Michael Mathias Prechtl, Gustav Mutzel, Robinson, Albert Henry Payne, Robert Kretschmer, Herbert Holzing. Excerpt: Wolf Erlbruch (born 1949 in Wuppertal, Germany) is an award-winning illustrator and writer of children's books. He combines various techniques for the artwork in his books, including cutting and pasting, drawing, and painting. His style is sometimes surrealist and is widely copied inside and outside Germany, and some of his story books discuss adult topics such as death and the meaning of life. They have won many awards, including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1993 and 2003, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2006. Erlbruch studied graphic design at the Folkwang-Schule in Essen, and worked as an illustrator for magazines such as Stern and Esquire. His first assignment as an illustrator of children's books came in 1985, when he was asked by the Wuppertal publisher Peter Hammer to illustrate Der Adler, der nicht fliegen wollte by James Aggrey; Erlbruch's son Leonard had just been born, and Erlb..
