Ali Mitgutsch

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

Publications

Picture Books

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 (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.
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