Art
“Incognito”: the Tomi Ungerer in quite a different way
If the Name Tomi falls Ungerer, many people think first of his famous books and illustrations. Most recently, he has turned to other art forms. The Museum Folkwang shows numerous unpublished works.
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Tomi Ungerer – Who needs a diploma?
The school was not being: Tomi Ungerer was in 1951, through the Abitur – what to make of him but it has not prevented career. He traveled through Europe, lived in the USA, worked as a window decorator, designed advertising campaigns and making a name for himself as an Illustrator and book author. Until today, Tomi Ungerer, the on 28. November 1931 in Strasbourg, was born, over 140 books published.
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“Journey’s Last Leg”
The Essen exhibition “Incognito” shows works from the past five decades, and thus older and newer Work. The focus is on Ungeres the last ten to 15 years. In this time, unusual collages, like this one from the year 2005. Show Tomi Ungerer’s wealth of ideas of a new page.
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“Till Death Do Us part”
Another example of his collages-time. Images like this are likely to surprise even die-hard Ungerer Fans. A total of 170 works are in the Essen exhibition, “Incognito” is issued.
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“Untitled 2013”
Tomi Ungerer lives alternately in his native city of Strasbourg and on a Farm in Ireland. There, he collects different objects and scrap, from which he makes sculptures. So, like this small dog, a carrier and a Bicycle saddle, composed of a baggage.
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“Pride And Prejudice”
“Every object can tell something. And it has no story, I’ll give him an idea.” Tomi Unger brings his ideas not only through his art, but also puts you on the paper: In the two books, “Better never than late” (2015) and “The hell and the Paradise of the devil” (2008) published by the artists he has written aphorisms.
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“Untitled 1988”
Some of Ungerer’s Works, bearing no title, but is simply called “Untitled” followed by the year of creation. This image shows a man with an accordion-like torso.
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Tomi Ungerer – Who needs a diploma?
The school was not being: Tomi Ungerer was in 1951, through the Abitur – what to make of him but it has not prevented career. He traveled through Europe, lived in the USA, worked as a window decorator, designed advertising campaigns and making a name for himself as an Illustrator and book author. Until today, Tomi Ungerer, the on 28. November 1931 in Strasbourg, was born, over 140 books published.
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“Journey’s Last Leg”
The Essen exhibition “Incognito” shows works from the past five decades, and thus older and newer Work. The focus is on Ungeres the last ten to 15 years. In this time, unusual collages, like this one from the year 2005. Show Tomi Ungerer’s wealth of ideas of a new page.
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“Till Death Do Us part”
Another example of his collages-time. Images like this are likely to surprise even die-hard Ungerer Fans. A total of 170 works are in the Essen exhibition, “Incognito” is issued.
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“Untitled 2013”
Tomi Ungerer lives alternately in his native city of Strasbourg and on a Farm in Ireland. There, he collects different objects and scrap, from which he makes sculptures. So, like this small dog, a carrier and a Bicycle saddle, composed of a baggage.
-
“Pride And Prejudice”
“Every object can tell something. And it has no story, I’ll give him an idea.” Tomi Unger brings his ideas not only through his art, but also puts you on the paper: In the two books, “Better never than late” (2015) and “The hell and the Paradise of the devil” (2008) published by the artists he has written aphorisms.
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“Untitled 1988”
Some of Ungerer’s Works, bearing no title, but is simply called “Untitled” followed by the year of creation. This image shows a man with an accordion-like torso.
Tomi Ungerer, an artistic multi-talent with nearly unlimited creativity, and society from a critical perspective. His Work as an Illustrator, Advertising artist and cartoonist have made him world-famous. Above all, he is for his books to be known, such as, for example, the children’s book “The three robbers”, or the widespread folk-song collection, “The great song book”, contributed to Ungerer imaginative illustrations.
His critical works for adults have brought him a large reader audience and causing a stir: “Fornicorn” 1969 places in a satirical way potency delusions and the mechanization of sexuality. The debate about the book was that at times all children were books, Ungerer’s public libraries in the U.S. and later also in England. Ungeres further Create did this not detract: To date, he has published more than 140 books.
This year the French artists from the Alsace, his 85 celebrates. Birthday. Old tired but he is not by far, but still full of joy. The Museum Folkwang presents Tomi Ungerer now from a rather unknown side: Under the title “Incognito” from the Museum, many previously unpublished Work. Especially the collages and small sculptures, which Ungerer created in the last 15 years, from the age of 18. To see the March in of the of Tobias castle exhibition curated. With the works, with those of Ungerer is known for, the exhibited Works are only partially something in common.
Tomi Ungerer, 2011, at a press conference in Strasbourg
Pictorial Imagination, Wealth
Because collages are assembled from individual, it is difficult to Ungerer’s artistic style in comparison to his illustrations identify. What the collages, however, his drawings have in common is Ungerer’s artistic imagination, says curator Tobias’s citizens in an interview with DW: “When you walk through the exhibition, there are different groups of issues. Serious and less serious topics. You realize in dealing with this Medium, what Ungerer for a visual Fantasy. Combining his collages also with his drawings.”
A combination of Collage and illustrations show exhibited pictures that were taken to Ungerer’s book “SNiP Snap” from the 1980s, but have not managed to book. In these images, Ungerer individual cut-outs glued, for example, from a magazine, on paper and with pen-and-ink more: A binocular is to the eyes of a jumping frog; gingko leaves to the ears of an elephant.
Sculptures by Ungerer, such as this untitled work made of wood are so far rather unknown
Socio-critical motives for which Ungerer is known, there are in the exhibition, only a few. The group of works entitled “Waiting for Godot” from the years 2009 to 2011, the theme of loneliness negotiated in different ways. Political allusions are implemented in Works such as the picture of the “Gun Lobby” abstract: On the left side of a Person is seen with zerschundenem back, on the right, a teenager and a child playing joyfully with a air rifle sitting around.
In the Tradition of John Heartfield and Max Ernst
Curator Tobias citizen finds it especially exciting, as both Tomi Ungerer and the Tradition of Collage, at the beginning of the 20th century. Century, in the art found in the now time-transformed: “There are leaves that are reminiscent of the ferocity of John heartfield or the wonderful collages of Max Ernst in the 1930s.” The work shows Hitler with his German shepherd dog that has a human bone in its mouth. Both are sitting on a black and white copy mounted, which shows a big mountain of human bones.
In addition to collages, small sculptures Ungerer’s are for citizens of a Highlight: “On his farm in Ireland, where Tomi lives Ungerer also, he has a giant collection of small objects, materials and scrap he has collected. And in this collection he takes when he makes these little sculptures.” The principle is similar to that of the Collage: The combination of two simple things, something New with a completely different meaning. So a little puppy will be from a rusty Luggage rack and an old children’s Bicycle saddle.
Has the age of 84, still a good Tomi laugh: Ungerer at his exhibition in Zurich
An idea from Zurich
The idea for the exhibition arose a few years ago in Zürich: Diogenes Verlag, and the Kunsthaus Zürich, with which the internal market is closely connected, knew of the Public to unknown Works. Parts of it were a few years ago already, in an exhibition in Würth. Then the Plan is to present the Whole in a larger context. For the first time, the “Incognito”exhibition at the Kunsthaus in Zurich.
The Work can now also be seen in food were largely provided by Ungerer, even with selected and ready. Other works come from the collection Würth, and the Tomi Ungerer Museum in Strasbourg, his hometown.