![]() ![]() Accustomed to working in black and white, she has used a very limited palette in her earlier work, such as Thumbelina (1980), The Swineherd (1982), and The Nightingale (1984). Henry’s Gift of the Magi (1982), Oscar Wilde’s Selfish Giant (1984), and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1988).Īlthough Zwerger s artwork is immediately recognizable, she acknowledges her great debt to Arthur Rackham and other English illustrators. Zwerger has now illustrated more than fifteen books, all fairy tales, folktales, or classic stories such as O. She began to illustrate stories and to sell individual pieces, and eventually her work caught the eye of an Austrian publisher, who gave her a contract for her first book, The Strange Child (1984), written by E. This was a turning point for Zwerger, who found in Rackham’s work both the inspiration and the direction she had lost. At one point, Rowe showed Zwerger a book of illustrations by Arthur Rackham. and struggled to support themselves as artists. They lived in Vienna, where Zwerger had grown up. ![]() None of her teachers had encouraged the art of illustration nor felt it was a worthwhile endeavor.Īround the same time, Zwerger met an English artist, John Rowe, who later became her husband. ![]() Just sixteen years earlier, she had dropped out of art school, frustrated and disillusioned. Lisbeth Zwerger was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for lifetime achievement and contribution to the field of children’s literature. ![]()
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