the collection of illustration-cut-outs below is from the children magazine STERNchen, an eight page added smaller magazine to the big german weekly publication STERN. they stopped it a long time ago, these illustrations were published between 1957 and latest around the eighties. the illustrators were DIETER LANGE, HORST LEMKE and URSULA SANDER. what I still find interesting about them is their stylistic variety, every children-story series had illustrations in their own style. sometimes the same illustrator even changed his/her style completely for a new series. anyway – they are of course nice MEMORIES and good to look at for inspiration.
© STERN / dieter lange, horst lemke, ursula sander
my name is hans bacher, – I work as production designer in the animation film industry. for the last 40 years I lived and worked in duesseldorf, london, paris, los angeles, manila and tokyo. now I am professor for film-design at the nanyang techn. university in singapore.
I love these, Hans. Even though they are stylistically different, they are definitely from a certain era, most of them anyway. How lovely…