Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (; 28 November 1931 – 9 February 2019) was a French artist and writer from Alsace .

Ungerer received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator. "I'd love to design clothes, but nobody has asked me," he said.

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Work

Ungerer described himself first and foremost as a storyteller and satirist. Prevalent themes in his work include political satire (such as drawings and posters against the Vietnam War and against animal cruelty), eroticism, and imaginative subjects for children's books.

Literature

  • (ed.): Tomi Ungerer. Zwischen Marianne und Germania, on the occasion of the exhibitions of the same name at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 19 December 1999 – 13 February 2000, and at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 16 March – 13 June 2000]. Prestel, Munich 1999
  • Maria Linsmann: preface to exhibition catalogue Tomi Ungerer-Illustrationen und Plastiken, Burg Wissem, of Troisdorf 2000
  • Thérèse Willer: Tomi Ungerer, the "Picasso“ of caricature. In: Graphis. The international journal of design and communication, , vol. 59, no. 348, 2003, pp 18–37
  • Thérèse Willer: Tomi Ungerer. Das Tomi Ungerer Museum in Strasbourg. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, . (catalogue of the permanent exhibition, with 210 illustrations by Ungerer, three essays by Thérèse Willer and several introductions)
  • Thérèse Willer: Tomi Ungerer: Energie. EnBW Service, Karlsruhe 2007, .
  • Tomi Ungerer. Der schärfste Strich der westlichen Welt. du Kulturmedien, No. 812, Zurich 2010, , Table of contents
  • (ed.): Expect the Unexpected. Essays über Tomi Ungerer zu seinem 80. Geburtstag, essays by , Walther Killy, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Robert Gernhardt, Anna Gavalda, Elke Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2011,

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List of exhibitions

  • Berlin, 1962. Posters against racism and the Vietnam War Melbourne Cup-->

References

  • Musée Tomi Ungerer
  • Lambiek Comiclopedia page.
  • Biography translated from an exhibition in Hanover
  • Tomi Ungerer: The Artist and His Background d.hatena.ne.jp 1971