Cartoonists Contemporary art


Henri-Georges Adam was a French engraver and non-figurative sculptor of the École de Paris, who was also involved in the creation of numerous monumental tapestries. His work in these three areas is regarded as among the most extensive of the twentieth century.


Quentin Saxby Blake is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works.[a] For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001, he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate. He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.


Raymond Redvers Briggs was a British writer, illustrator, and cartoonist.
A professional illustrator, he worked on the design of children's books. In the 1960s, Briggs discovered his talent and ability to combine words and pictures, using a form of strip cartooning that defined his later work.
Briggs is best known for his wordless book The Snowman, published in 1978, a sort of cute children's tale but with deep meaning. The animated and musical versions of this book are popular in Britain and are shown annually at Christmas.


Orville Bulman is a self-taught American artist and former businessman. After working briefly as a cartoonist in Chicago and becoming president of two family-owned companies, he was inspired by the lives of the African-American people of Haiti and the Caribbean islands. Bulman created some 2,000 paintings depicting the flora and fauna of those places and scenes of people's lives.


Paul Dom, born Paulus Ludovicus Carolus Dom, was a Belgian and Dutch painter and illustrator.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, lived in Belgium and the Netherlands, was granted Dutch citizenship in 1936 and lived in The Hague for the rest of his life.
Paul Dom was a versatile artist. He dabbled in drawing and painting and painted portraits, cityscapes and sketches, and genre scenes. At the same time he was a political cartoonist and illustrated books. Between 1917 and 1956 Dom illustrated hundreds of books, mostly for children.


Simon English is a contemporary british artist. He is best known for his large and small-scale 'painted drawings' in which he mingles his distinctive imagery and words. He moves lightly between tight draftsmanship and a playfully sloppy application of colour and line. Language is paramount with diaristic musings interspersed with song lyrics, poetry and humorous one-liners. Self-described as 'automatic', his work has the spontaneity of stream-of-consciousness, exploring themes of love and loss, as well as gay and popular culture. Simon English lives and works in London. He emerged on the London Art scene in 1994 with an exhibition of paintings at the Saatchi Gallery as part of Young British Art III. Simon has exhibited internationally at numerous institutions.


Jazep Mikhailovich Gorid (Russian: Язеп Михайлович Горид) was a Belarusian and Polish-Lithuanian artist of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a graphic artist and painter, caricaturist and illustrator.
Jazep Gorid drew political and everyday caricatures, painted portraits and landscapes. He also worked in book graphics, illustrated and designed books and other printed publications. In addition, the artist created stained-glass windows and murals.


William Gropper was an American cartoonist, lithographer, and graphic artist who studied under Robert Henry and George Bellows. As a socialist, he spent his life creating satirical images about greed and exploitation, war, and prejudice. The artist visited the USSR in the 1920s, and the main subjects of his work in the 1930s were the international labor movement and anti-fascist cartoons. He collaborated with many Communist-oriented American publications. Glopper is known not only for his caricatures, but also for his book illustrations, posters, monumental and easel paintings.


Friederike Groß is a German painter, caricaturist and university teacher who lives and works as a freelance artist in Stuttgart.
Friederike Groß studied free graphics and art education with Dieter Groß at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart from 1984 to 1989. Since 1985, Friederike Groß has worked as a caricaturist for the Stuttgarter Zeitung.
From 2008 to 2014, Friederike Groß taught as a lecturer in drawing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Since 2013, she has held a professorship for illustration at the Berlin Technical University of the Arts (BTK) at the campus in Hamburg.


Albert Guillaume was a French artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and master of the poster.
Guillaume was a prolific illustrator: he worked for magazines, books, and almanacs, and his satirical drawings were published in Parisian humor magazines. He was also a painter and designer of theater posters and advertising posters. Working for the large Parisian printing company Camis, he designed a series of highly successful posters for commercial goods.


Thomas Theodor Heine was a German-Swedish artist of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of Jewish origin. He is known as a painter, draftsman, illustrator and writer.
Heine co-founded the popular German satirical weekly Simplicissimus, where he printed his drawings and caricatures. He also collaborated with the magazines Flying Pages and Youth, illustrated books, and created advertising posters and erotic drawings. After the Nazis came to power, the artist fled to Sweden, where he obtained citizenship. His works were presented at a retrospective anniversary exhibition in Stockholm in 1947, a year before Heine's death.


Dieter Huthmacher, born in 1947 in Pforzheim, Germany, is a renowned artist celebrated for his contributions to the world of fine art. His creative journey is marked by a diverse array of print graphics, where he skillfully blends color and form to create captivating works. Huthmacher's art is not only a reflection of his mastery in various techniques but also a testament to his deep understanding of artistic expression.
Throughout his career, Huthmacher has explored different themes and motifs, often experimenting with large formats and various color techniques. His works, primarily consisting of prints, have been featured in several auctions, indicating the consistent interest and value placed on his art in the collectors' market. Notable pieces like "Thalia," created around 1988, showcase his proficiency in color woodcut techniques and are representative of his artistic signature.
Dieter Huthmacher's works continue to be sought after, with auctions featuring over 25 graphic prints of various motifs, demonstrating his versatility and appeal in the art world. His creations have been presented in prestigious auction houses, resonating with collectors, auctioneers, and art enthusiasts alike.
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Felix Runcie Kelly was a New Zealand-born graphic designer, painter, stage designer, interior designer and illustrator who lived the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. He sometimes signed his illustration and cartoon work Fix.


Nyoman Masriadi is a painter and a leading artist of the post-Suharto era in Indonesia. His works have gained a collectors base which includes prominent collectors in and around the region.
The visual imagery and narratives in his paintings are derived from keen and intelligent observations of social life and behavioural traits. His visual vocabulary is striking, continuously refreshing and contemporaneously relevant.


Markus Oehlen is a German artist and musician.
Markus Oehlen graduated from the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, where his mentor was Alfonso Hüppi. Oehlen was one of the main members of the German "New Wilde" (Neue Wilde) art movement, which flourished in the 1980s and was characterized by the use of punk style elements in opposition to the then prevalent minimalism.
Oelen is constantly refining the technique of his paintings and also working in parallel on sculptures and musical projects. His new works are increasingly influenced by the perceptual experiments of op-art with their interference of printed images, which emerge as lattice patterns from below and above the image layers. Alongside forms oriented towards a computer aesthetic, this brings elements of the avant-garde into his images. By rearranging the individual compositional elements of the canvas, Oelen creates surrealist still lifes, playing with the notion of chance and suggesting bizarre narratives.
Markus Oehlen has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2002.


Dan Perjovschi is a Romanian artist, cartoonist and journalist living and working in Bucharest, Romania.
Dan Perjovschi blends drawing, comics and graffiti, commenting on current political, social and cultural issues, sometimes with a touch of black humor. He started working as a press illustrator back in the 1990s and has gained a lot of experience over the years. He plays an active role in the development of civil society in Romania, serving as editor of Revista 22, a cultural magazine, as well as producing his own publication, Gazeta Dana Perjovschi. Perjovschi's works are often printed and used during protests, as they reflect current social and civic issues.
In the last 10 years, in addition to drawing on paper, he has begun to use chalk and marker on the walls of buildings and exhibition spaces, drawing with great freedom even on the floor, walls and windows. In 2009, Dan Perjovschi created his first permanent exhibition at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague. It consists of 200 monumental drawings on the concrete walls of the main atrium of the building. Dan Perjovschi is the winner of many international awards.


Dorothea Schulz is a German artist and graphic artist.
She reveals etymologies, finds pleasure in bar chatter and images, and discovers the Last Judgment both in pubs and in institutions of federal justice.
For about ten years now, Dorothea Schulz has been predominantly concerned with comprehension and communication, listening and its visual processing. The artist creates her so-called listening drawings during conversations that she accidentally hears or in which she herself actively participates. Snippets of speech are mixed with small, sometimes grotesque figurative drawings to create documents of spoken language that expose both the everyday use of language and its associative processing in the act of communication.
Dorothea Schulz became known to a wider audience after her participation in the exhibition Funny Cuts (2004) at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.


Ronald William Fordham Searle was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School, a fictional all-girls school known for its unruly students and mischievous antics, and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. His professional career begins with his documentation of the brutal camp conditions of his period as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in World War II in a series of drawings. Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939–1945. In the book, Searle also wrote of his experiences as a prisoner. At least one of his drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of his originals are in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, along with the works of other POW artists. Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch.[8] His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. After moving to Paris in 1961, he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media and created books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society. Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema.


Ralph Idris Steadman is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books. As well as writing and illustrating his own books and Thompson's, Steadman has worked with writers including Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell and Brian Patten, and also illustrated editions of Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Animal Farm, the English translation of Flann O'Brien's Gaelic-language classic The Poor Mouth, and most recently, Fahrenheit 451. Steadman has drawn album covers for numerous music artists, including the Who, Exodus, Frank Zappa and Ambrosia, and the lead banner for the gonzo journalism website GonzoToday.com.


Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer was an Alsatian artist and writer. He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He was known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms. Ungerer is also famous as a cartoonist and designer of political posters and film posters.
Ungerer received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator.


Otto Gerhard Waalkes is a German comedian, cartoonist, actor (including voice actor), musician, director and screenwriter. He has won many prizes and awards, among them the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The little elephant Ottifant, which he invented, became the symbol of Otto Walkes' art and also the character for a series of comics and cartoons.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s Valckes turned his attention to comedy, appearing on stage and on television. He became known for his wry humour and his ability to create humorous characters and voices. His performances often include a mixture of stand-up comedy, skits and musical numbers.
Wallkes has also had a successful career in film and television. He has appeared in numerous German films. He also provided the voice for several animated films.
Otto Gerhard Wallkes is a well-known philanthropist, supporting various charities in Germany and around the world.