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1931 Strasbourg, France - 2019 Cork, Ireland. Known for: Children's book illustration, humorous genre, advertising art, posters.
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising,... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising, protest art and erotica, died on Friday in Cork, Ireland. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. Mr. Ungerer burst onto the children’s-book scene in 1957 with The Mellops Go Flying,”the first of... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising, protest art and erotica, died on Friday in Cork, Ireland. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. Mr. Ungerer burst onto the children’s-book scene in 1957 with The Mellops Go Flying,”the first of a series of books he would write and illustrate about a family of pigs prone to going on adventures and getting into predicaments. (In the first book, they build an airplane, which crashes when it runs out of fuel, and that’s only the beginning of... Read full biography
"Tomi Ungerer, Brash Illustrator for Young and Older, Dies at 87," Obituary, The New York Times, by Neil Genzlinger, Feb. 11, 2019. Tomi Ungerer, an acclaimed illustrator and author who brought a scampish style to children’s books and whose wide-ranging career also took him into advertising, protest art and erotica, died on Friday in Cork, Ireland. He was 87. His death was announced on his website. Mr. Ungerer burst onto the children’s-book scene in 1957 with The Mellops Go Flying,”the first of a series of books he would write and illustrate about a family of pigs prone to going on adventures and getting into predicaments. (In the first book, they build an airplane, which crashes when it runs out of fuel, and that’s only the beginning of the tale.). The Mellops books and others, with their quirky stories and simple but idiosyncratic drawings, stood... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Cowboys
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Cartoon Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art