Opening of the Tomi Ungerer Museum

CONTENTS
1. EDITORIAL BY FABIENNE KELLER, SENATOR-MAYOR OF STRASBOURG
AND ROBERT GROSSMANN,
PRESIDENT OF STRASBOURG URBAN COMMUNITY
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2. FOREWORD BY JOËLLE PIJAUDIER-CABOT
STRASBOURG MUSEUM DIRECTOR
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3. FOREWORD BY THÉRÈSE WILLER
MUSEUM CURATOR TOMI UNGERER
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4. PRESS RELEASE
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5. TOMI UNGERER
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6. A UNIQUE PLACE: THE GREINER VILLA
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7. THE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
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8. THE MUSEOGRAPHIC TOURPAGE
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9. THE VILLA GREINER MODERNISATION
AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS
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10. FINANCING
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11. PUBLICATIONS
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12. CONFERENCE CYCLE
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13. EVENTS AROUND THE TOMI UNGERER MUSEUM OPENING
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14. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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15. PHOTOS AVAILABLE TO THE PRESS
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16. USEFUL INFORMATION
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APPENDICES:
TOMI UNGERER'S BIOGRAPHY
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SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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RELATIONS WITH THE NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL PRESS
RELATIONS WITH THE LOCAL PRESS
HEYMANN, RENOULT ASSOCIÉES
Tel.: 01 44 61 76 76 - Fax : 01 44 61 74 40
MUSEUM COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT
Audrey Zehner - Tel. : 03 88 52 50 18
audrey.zehner@cus-strasbourg.net
National press: Sarah Heymann and Chloé Roux
c.roux@heymann-renoult.com
International press: Annabelle Floriant
a.floriant@heymann-renoult.com
STRASBOURG PRESS DEPARTMENT
Anne Rageot - Tel. : 03 88 60 91 93
anne.rageot@cus-strasbourg.net
Press kit and photos
downloadable on: www.heymann-renoult.com
29, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 75001 Paris
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1. EDITORIAL
The "Museum Year" goes on till the end of 2007. The Alsatian Museum, whose entry is free
throughout the centenary year, with many visitors rediscovering a unique place: the biggest folk
museum in France is certainly one of the most moving.
Since its opening, the Historical Museum offers an exceptional panorama of Strasbourg's
history. One can rediscover the relief plan, Adolphe Seyboth's Pfalz model and other artworks
highlighted by a completely renewed museography.
The "Museum Year" third act will take place in autumn: Tomi Ungerer's works will move to the
Greiner Villa, within the new Tomi Ungerer Museum — International Centre for Illustration. His
collections will be displayed there, in comparison with other contemporary artists and
illustrators, inviting people to explore his particular universe, which is not very well known yet.
Heritage, emotion, contemporary creation: Strasbourg's museums are more amazing than ever.
We invite you to discover them.
Fabienne Keller
Senator-Mayor of Strasbourg
Robert Grossmann
President of Strasbourg Urban Community
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2. FOREWORD BY JOËLLE PIJAUDIER-CABOT
Chief Heritage Curator
Strasbourg's museum Director
François Mathey, the hardly conformist curator of Paris Decorative Art Museum who organised
Tony Ungerer's first great museum exhibition in 1981, said that his line "sometimes was as
acute as a chipped razor blade". Thisbeautiful, brief and surprising formula, describes in few
words the man and his work. Acommitted, acute, provocative man with grating humour,
portraying his era, just like Goya, Daumier or Posada before him; but also a humorist, a poet of
childhood and nature, a sweet moralist.
As a drawer, illustrator and graphic designer, Tomi Ungerer is among the greatest, an artist with
a quick and firm drawing, as good for acute caricatures as for smooth water-colours or coloured
tint areas in poster vocabulary. His children's books, satirical drawings and advertisement
creations have always been epoch-making.
In 1975, while he hesitates to show his work in a great Parisian museum where illustration
knows an extraordinary rebirth for that time in France, Tomi Ungerer starts donating works to his
native town, Strasbourg. Over the years, he has thus offered a set of eight thousand original
drawings, representative of the major trends in his work, sculptures, as well as a set of more
than two thousand toys from his personal collection. He has also donated archives, books,
albums, magazines, photographs, that are all essential for studying his creative evolution, as
well as his artists library. This exceptional library gathers about one thousand three hundred
books, whether old or more recent, about arts, sciences, history, ethnology and the Alsace,
including children's books. It is a priceless resource for studying Tomi Ungerer's work, and more
generally illustration in the XXth century. His donations have enabled the creation of the Tomi
Ungerer Centre, open to his numerous researchers and lovers of his work; exhibitions are
organised from this fund, highlighting its major aspects.
The Tomi Ungerer Museum, an International Centre for Illustration is opening today at the town
of Strasbourg's initiative in the Greiner Villa, which was built between 1885 and 1887 and is a
beautiful example of civil architecture with neo-classic inspiration. The museum maintains Tomi
Ungerer's original artworks, in addition to his printed production and documentary sources. It
presents his work, classified according to the major graphic categories, children's books,
satirical drawings and advertisement and thematic groups such as macabre danses or erotic
drawings.
Beyond the strict frame of the monographic assembly, the collection has, over the years,
integrated artworks from other major illustrators, with whom Tomi Ungerer trained, in New York
particularly, like Paul Steinberg, André François, Ronald Searle or Robert Weaver. The museum
thus strives to meet his ambition to gather and show a significant collection of the illustration art
in the XXth century, as it developed itself in Europe and in the United States and to become,
with Tomi Ungerer's kind mentoring, an international study and research centre for illustration art
history and news. It is a unique project in France and, thanks to Tomi Ungerer's bounty and
perspicacity, its legitimate place is in Strasbourg, which has been, from the early XVth century,
one of the most dynamic printed image "manufactures" with an exceptional heritage. The history
continues!
The Tomi Ungerer Museum was born after many years studying his work. This huge work, as
well as the museographic project itself, have remarkably been completed since 1992 by Thérèse
Willer, the heritage curator, with the assistance of her collaborators Claire Hirner and Cécile
Ripoll. We thank them as well as all the people who worked with them to create the museum.
We warmly thank Tomi Ungerer too for giving birth to this museum bearing his name, and for
accepting this adventure, which makes him a contributor to illustration's history and future.
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3. FOREWORD BY THÉRÈSE WILLER
Tomi Ungerer Museum Curator
The Tomi Ungerer Museum — International Centre for Illustration opens on November 2007 at
the Greiner Villa, a house dating back to the end of the XIXth century and located at the heart of
Strasbourg, in a historical area and an exceptional architectural environment.
The museum, which bears the name of the drawer and illustrator from Strasbourg, born in 1931,
offers a museographic tour mostly based on the display of paper works from the artist's
repeated donations to his native town since 1975. It aims t o show his prolific work to the
entire world, in all its aspects, from children's books to satirical drawings, and posters,
commercial art and even sculptures.
But beyond this monographic tour, the museum will also show artworks from other international
illustrators and drawers of the XXth century who contributed to the illustration history, still hardly
known today. In this regard, a temporary exhibition programme and an acquisition policy have
been implemented with the help of a Research centre.
The Tomi Ungerer Museum is unique in France. Indeed, illustration drawings have only been
shown during temporary exhibitions, not permanent ones. The creation of this new infrastructure,
the tenth in Strasbourg's Museum network, is completely justified by the illustration drawing
tradition, which has been present in the town since the printing development and which the
Decorative Arts School faithfully perpetuates with its illustration workshop. Gustave Dore was
also born in Strasbourg; he is, together with Daumier, Hogarth, Busch and Tomi Ungerer, one of
the most famous representatives of this art.
The big interest in this hardly known subject and Strasbourg's privileged location within Europe
will undoubtedly attract local, national and international visitors to the Tomi Ungerer Museum.
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4. PRESS RELEASE
OPENING OF
THE TOMI UNGERER MUSEUM
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ILLUSTRATION
ON 2 NOVEMBER 2007
The Tomi Ungerer Museum — International Centre for Illustration is dedicated to thepresentation
and diffusion of the graphic work by Tony Ungerer, a world-renowned artist and illustrator from
Strasbourg. The museum also gathers collections which are representative of illustration
creation in the XXth century.
THE PROJECT
Since 1975, Tomi Ungerer has donated most of his works to
the City of Strasbourg. This collection, which is exceptional in terms of diversity, coherence and
quality,
comprises eight thousand original drawings. It will be presented to the public on a permanent
basis,
by rotation, as from October 2007.
TOMI UNGERER (BIOGRAPHY)
Tomi Ungerer was born in 1931 and began his career as a drawer and illustrator in New York. In
1957, he published his first children's books The Mellops Go Flying, for which he was awarded
the renowned "Spring Book Festival" prize, followed by The Three Robbers. In the Sixties, he
produced striking advertising campaigns like the one for The New York Times. He also drew for
the press and designed one of his most famous posters: "Black Power/White Power" against
racial segregationism. His satirical works are particularly numerous with outstanding books like
The Party
and Babylon mocking the contemporary society. In 1981, a retrospective exhibition at the
Decorative Arts Museum of Paris celebrated his 25-year career and in 2001, Strasbourg
organised a major exhibition dedicated to him at the Modern and Contemporary Arts Museum: "
Tomi and New York". Moreover, prizes such as the Grand prix national des Arts graphiques, the
Andersen prize and the Erich-Kästner prize were awarded to him.
A UNIQUE PLACE IN THE CENTRE OF STRASBOURG
The City of Strasbourg has decided to settle the Tomi Ungerer Museum — International
illustration centre in the Villa Greiner : a central location close to the cathedral. The villa is
located in an exceptional architectural environment, bearing witness to the late XIXth century
architecture. The main building is surrounded by a garden and covers about 700 square metres
in which are located the exhibition rooms, the documentation centre, the storeroom and the
offices. It benefits from a privileged cultural environment with the close Rhine National Opera,
the Strasbourg National Theatre, the National University Library and the Rhine Palace.
AN ILLUSTRATION COLLECTION
The illustration drawing genre is hardly present in the French public collections. The Tomi
Ungerer Museum fund comprises hardly shown original drawings but also prints, especially
series of satirical magazines which are landmarks in the illustration history, such as Hara-Kiri.
Most of the artists who made striking contributions to this field on a national and international
scale - Bosc, Chaval, André François, Maurice Henry, Ronald Searle, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Siné,
Saul Steinberg, Robert Weaver, Willem – will be shown on a regular basis, allowing visitors to
discover the work of XXth and XXIth century drawers/illustrators.
A LIVELY MUSEOGRAPHIC TOUR
The museographic tour emphasizes the different sides of Tomi Ungerer's work. Respecting the
most important chronological marks, it follows the main thematic axes: children's book
drawings, commercial art and satirical drawings.
300 works are presented at one time and are renewed every 4 months or so, in order to allow
people to progressively discover the whole collection and to comply with
the conservation standards for graphic works. The tour is divided into three levels:
• Ground floor
Presentation of the children's books, one of the most popular aspects in his work. In one of the
rooms are shown the animated cartoons produced from Tomi Ungerer's books.
• First floor
Dedicated to the two most famous axes in his adult work: advertisements and the satirical
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drawings. The first climax in this part is the presentation of posters and preparatory drawings.
Afterwards come the social and political satire themes with the famous posters against the
Vietnam war and racial segregationism in particular.
• The garden floor
On this floor one of the majors themes of Tomi Ungerer's satirical work, the "Macabre Dances",
is developed . The erotic drawings and sketches of the Grenouillades, Totempole and Fornicon,
gathered around unfamiliar assemblies made with Barbie dolls, will complete this level.
A PLACE FOR RESEARCH AND STUDIES
The museum is also a place for research and studies since illustration drawings are a exciting
but still unknown investigation field to explore. Researchers can access, on appointment, a
library of books about illustration, including Tomi Ungerer's personal library of 1,500 books that
the artist chose to donate to Strasbourg's museums.
WORKS SCHEDULE
Decided upon by a panel of judges, the construction was entrusted in 2005 to Emmanuel
Combarel (architect, Paris) team and Roberto Ostinelli's (museograph, Paris) team.
• October 2006 : works start
• Summer 2007 : end of works and museographic installation.
• 02 November 2007 : public opening
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5. TOMI UNGERER
Tomi Ungerer, who was born in Strasbourg, has an international career as a drawer and
illustrator for posters, children's books and satirical drawings, which started in New York in
1957. He quickly achieved great success with his first children's book, The Mellops go flying,
published by Harper & Row, and his advertising campaigns for Madison Avenue agencies. In his
satirical drawings, he attacks New York's society as in the caustic drawings The Party and the
American politics with the "Black
Power/White Power" poster, which has become a true icon.
But in 1971, he decides to break with New York's society and settles in Canada. He leaves it in
1975 to move to Ireland where he still lives. In books like Babylon and Rigor Mortis, he fiercely
illustrates the erring ways of the modern world.
His extensive graphic work is multiform and diversified and has been awarded numerous prizes
like the Andersen prize, the Jakob-Burckhardt prize and the Grand prix national des Arts
graphiques over more than forty years. He uses the same talent for children's book drawings,
commercial posters, satirical and erotic drawings and observation drawings. Beside these
numerous genres are numerous themes: he gets concerned with couples, society,
mechanisation, time and death, war, injustice and intolerance, which are more and more
present, crossing and interweaving themselves in his work.
In spite of this diversity, his assured stroke and creative power make his style recognizable at
first sight. The artist's belonging to different cultural contexts like the Alsace and the UnitedStates have undoubtedly contributed to his unique talent. Since the second half of the XXth
century, Ungerer has perpetuated the illustration drawing tradition in his own way as Gustave
Doré, Honoré Daumier and Wilhem Busch had done before.
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6. A UNIQUE PLACE: THE GREINER VILLA
A villa from the end of the XIXth century located in the heart of Strasbourg
The City of Strasbourg has decided to settle this museum in the Greiner Villa, located in the
surroundings of the Place de la Republique, close to the Ill, at the heart of the German imperial
district from the end of the XIXth century. Built by the Parisian architect Revel in 1885-1887, it
was the ORTF headquarters in the Fifties and was then bought in 1963 by the City. Since then, it
has sheltered several local services, such as appendages of the
Conservatoire and the Opera.
Close to the Rhine National Opera, the National Theatre of Strasbourg, the National University
Library and the Rhine Palace, the Greiner Villa, with its neoclassic style, perfectly fits in this
exceptional architectural environment.
Surrounded by a garden, the main building has some 700 square metres of useful space where
the exhibition rooms, a documentation centre, a storeroom and offices are located.
7. THE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
Decided upon by a panel of judges, the construction was entrusted to Emmanuel Combarel
(architect) and Roberto Ostinelli (museograph) in 2005.
Emmanuel Combarel and Dominique Marrec's architectural agency (ECDM) was created in 1993
after being awarded the "Albums de la Jeune Architecture". They began common career by
participating in competitions, which they often won. Since then, the agency was awarded the
"Villa Médicis Hors Les Murs" prize in 1996 and nominated in 2003 in the "Equerre d’Argent"
for a student residence in Argenteuil. They participated in many consultations: the Mine and
Metallurgy Museum of Lastours (Aude) in 2003, the Henri Langlois Cinema Museum of Paris in
2004, the National Museum of Estonia in 2005 and more recently, the FRAC Bretagne. Last but
not least, the ECDM Agency is currently in the running for the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
building.
www.combarel-marrec.com
The museograph Roberto Ostinelli, who graduated from Lugano Arts school, studied
in France, at Paris VIII University, then at Paris la Villette Architecture School. His career began in
Mario Botta and Ivano Gianola's architecture offices. He worked on the Kloten airport project
with Keller and Bachmann in Zurich, which prompted him to take interest in different activities he
carried out in each project. He wins the competition for Orsay Museum signs with Bruno
Monguzzi and Jean Widmer and thus discovers that museography is the place where architecture
is represented and tested and a link with other activities.
He designs his first exhibition "Verres de Bohême" at the Decorative Art Museum of Paris. Then,
he organises the following exhibitions: "René Lalique" at the Decorative Art Museum in 1991,
"The body in pieces" at Orsay Museum in 1992, « Copying/Creating » at the Louvre Museum in
1993, "The soul in the body" at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in 1994, "Medicine at
the time of caliphs" at the Arab World Institute in1996, "Topkapi's treasures" at the Palace of
Versailles in 1998, "The wandering Jew" at the Judaism Art and History Museum of Paris in
2002, "Light in the Age of enlightenment and today" in the Poirel rooms of Nancy in 2005, and
in 2006 "Paris in films" at Paris Town hall - St. Jean room
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8. THE MUSEOGRAPHIC TOUR
The museographic tour, divided into three levels, emphasizes the different aspects of Tomi
Ungerer's work. Respecting the most important chronological marks, it follows the main thematic
axes, children's book drawings, commercial art and satirical drawings. For reasons of preventive
conservation, graphic artworks cannot be shown for more than three or four months
consecutively. The displayed artworks will then be regularly changed three times a year. This
operating mode will allow visitors to discover, by rotation, the broadness of the collection.
• Ground floor
In the hall, biographical elements and a film about Tomi Ungerer's work allow visitors to become
acquainted with the artist.
Then, you will find one of the most popular side of Tomi Ungerer's work, children's books.
Zeralda's Ogre, Papa Snap's No Such Stories, Allumette, No Kiss for Mother and Otto are some of
the books visitors will be able to discover.
Some toys of Tomi Ungerer's collection, especially his main piece "Le cuirassé Oregon", are also
shown with regards to the drawings. In one of the rooms, animated cartoons produced from the
artist's children's books are shown. The illustrations for Das grosse Liederbuch (The Great Song
Book), addressing both children and adults, make the transition with the first floor where Tomi
Ungerer's adult books are displayed.
• First floor
On this level are displayed the two most famous expressions of his adult work: advertisements
and satirical drawings. His American campaigns, particularly that for The New York Times and his
works with the advertiser Robert Pütz (for Bonduelle for example), found under the form of
posters and preparatory drawings, are a first climax in the tour.
Then the social satire themes are displayed, with the particularly striking series of original
drawings from the book The Party, an acute criticism of New York's upper class, completed with
satirical sculptures and political satire as testified by his famous posters against the Vietnam
War and racial segregationism.
On the same level, a room is dedicated to Toni Ungerer's masters and contemporary artists such
as Saul Steinberg, André François, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Robert Weaver, Ronald Searle or
Maurice Sendak.
• The garden level
The tour continues at this level where a major theme of Tomi Ungerer's satirical work is
developed
through his "Macabre Dances".
Finally, the erotic drawings and sketches from Joy of Frogs, Totempole and Fornicon,
gathered around unfamiliar assemblies made with Barbie dolls,
complete the garden level.
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9. THE GREINER VILLA MODERNISATION AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS
The total amount of this operation is 2,660,000 incl. VAT, including 1,870,000 incl. VAT for the
interior development works and 300,000 incl. VAT for museography.
10. FINANCING
The construction of the Tomi Ungerer Museum was mainly funded by the City of Strasbourg,
owner of the Greiner Villa. They provide the funds for the main development costs with
contributions, calculated upon the amount without VAT of the development works, from:
- The Ministry of Culture and Communication / the Regional Alsace Cultural
Affairs Office (25%)
- The Bas-Rhin General Council (17%)
- The Alsace Region (15%)
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11. PUBLICATIONS
TOMI UNGERER MUSEUM
THE COLLECTION
Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg
22 x 26 cm
210 colour illustrations, including approx. 70 new ones
256 pages
Provisional public sale price: 39 euros
ISBN: 978-2-35125-051-8
Publication Strasbourg October 2007
Office: November 2
Distribution: Volumen
A German version co-published with Diogenes Verlag will also be published at that date.
The book, first part of the publications about the museum collection is designed to present Tomi
Ungerer's main artworks. A rich, partly new, iconographic choice, illustrates the main genres
dealt with by the artist in his major graphic art works :children's book drawings (Zeralda's Ogre,
Allumette, The Three Robbers…), commercial posters (for magazines such as The New York
Times or Village Voice, publicists, cultural events [Fête de la Musique, Montreux Festival]),
observation drawings, satirical drawings (social and political satires) and erotic drawings.
Three essays from Thérèse Willer support the presentation of these works of art:
- by evoking the context of this work, with Tomi Ungerer's implication in the European and AngloSaxon graphical research of the XXth century, in collaboration with André François, Jean-Jacques
Sempé, Rolland Topor, as well as Ronald
Searle, Saul Steinberg or Maurice Sendak ;
- by proposing a detailed analysis of the themes encountered during his creative years: couples,
society, mechanisation, Franco-German relations, time, death, war, injustice and intolerance,
nature;
- by detailing the history and content of the artist's personnal library made up of 1,270 reference
works and donated to Strasbourg museums in 2000.
Authors:
Thérèse Willer, Claire Hirner
Under the direction of Thérèse Willer, curator of Tomi Ungerer Museum— International
illustration centre
Catalogue excerpts
The context of illustration in France
[…]The French illlustration, particularly that of the XXth century, was also part of the context in
which Tomi Ungerer trained. Indeed, the emblematic French authors for children during his
childhood and teenage years in the thirties, like the "Bibliothèque rose" collection authors, the
Countess of Segur, Jules Verne, Samivel, the first adventures of Tintin, published in theVaillant
magazine, were among his first reading1, as well as the Pieds nickeles and even l’Espiègle Lili. As
for the fable writers Benjamin Rabier and Jean de Brunhoff, they were, at that time, already
considered as classics of the children's literature. Their humanised poultry-yard animals like the
duck Gedeon and exotic animals like the elephant Babar and the monkey Zéphyr delighted the
young Tomi Ungerer in turn. They inspired his own children's books: his first creations in the
Sixties – the boa Crictor and the little pigs Mellops –, are worthy heirs to them.
In French illustration, satirical and humorous drawings had a particularly important place during
the early XXth century. Tomi Ungerer refers to the controversial drawings from l’Assiette au
beurre as the best in this genre, considers Daumier, whose strokes have marked Babylon
drawings, as a master in this field.
But most of all, he remembers Albert Dubout's (1905-1976) particular humour that he
discovered in the Fifties in books shown to him by a friend of his family's. He writes: "In the
composition of these accumulation drawings, as in Monsieur Racine, one should not forget
someone to whom I owe a lot, Dubout2". Indeed, some of these children's books - The Beast of
Monsieur Racine but also Papa Snap's No Such Stories as well as more recent books like Flix and
Tremolo – show uncontrolled crowd scenes, a satirical subject dating back to the end of the
XIXth centurywhich was one of Dubout's specialities3. Like his predecessor, These scenes are
full of sometimes raunchy and almost obscene details, which
are expressions of grotesque comedy.
1
. T. Ungerer, A Childhood under the Nazis, Strasbourg, La Nuée bleue/DNA, 1991, p. 87.
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Discovered some time later by Tomi Ungerer, André François (1915-2004) certainly was one of
the most prolific French drawers in the XXth century. He was amazingly creative in all kinds of
graphic arts4 and notably created fifty-nine famous covers for The New Yorker between 1963 and
1991 The style of this former trainee of Cassandre5, full of the fantasy and imagination specific
to Central Europe where he came from6 and the mordant tone that characterised his satirical and
humorous drawings deeply marked Tomi Ungerer who discovered them in the Fifties. At that
time, the predecessor was already known in English magazines such as Lilliput and Punch as
well as in American ones like Vogue which published his drawings. These ones were then republished in cartoon books such as The Half-Naked Knight or The Tattooed Sailor. Tomi Ungerer
met André François in New York in the Sixties, while the latter was staying there for an
advertising campaign and a durable friendship started between them. Leading parallel careers,
they were thus to work in the same fields of illustration: that is how they both produced, with
only a few years interval, a German advertising campaign for the Siegwerk printing inks, following
a rainbow theme. Among Ungerer's masters in terms of illustration, André François is certainly
the one he feels closer to, through his creativity and liberty in drawings as well as through his
diverse graphic activities.
Raymond Savignac (1907-2002), another great figure in French illustration drawing, also marked
the young Tomi at his beginnings: he was a master in the poster art at that time and remained
so till the Seventies. Just after the war, he had broken with the aesthetic lines of his
predecessors, Paul Colin (1892-1985) and Cassandre, inventing the "visual gag".They became
systematic in his advertisements for Monsavon "with milk" – who revealed him in 1949 and
whose pink cow remained emblematic –, for Yoplait, the Gitanes cigarettes or Maggi – everybody
remembers this half ox breathing the aroma of the pot-au-feu stock. made of its butt. The
concept claiming that an idea must be passed through humour was quickly adopted by poster
designers of that time and Tomi Ungerer in particular: the Savignac images, which were part of
his everyday life in the fifities, especially marked his first advertisement creations, like the ones
he produced for the Corona copybooks.
Thérèse Willer
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2. T. Ungerer, la Revue des livres pour enfants, p. 55.
3. See "Pétanque sur la Canebière", illustration for Fanny by Marcel Pagnol, 1948, repr. in Michel Melot, Dubout, Paris,
éd. Michel Trinckvel, 1996, p. 126-127.
4. He drew children's books – in 1958, les Larmes de crocodile – and advertisements – he designed some
250 posters, particularly for Citroën, le Nouvel Observateur and Télérama – and illustrated books like Ubu the King by
Alfred Jarry and
Lettre des îles Baladar by Jacques Prévert.
5. Jean-Marie Mouron, a.k.a. Adolphe Cassandre, French painter and poster designer (1901-1968).
6. André François was born in Timisoara, Romania, in 1915.
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Tomi Ungerer's works
[…]Tomi Ungerer has always refused to confine himself and specialise to one graphical « style ».
For this reason he adopted several, pictures for children, commercial art, satirical art, erotic art
and observation art are the most notable expressions. His very first artistic activity during his
childhood was observational, which is the work base for all artists7: this can be seen in his note
books for this period, the scenes from everyday family life or from the war, and later, his bicycle
and hitching travelling experiences experiences8 provided a direct field of observation9. In the
context of the after war period, particularly favourable to all types of illustration works, the young
artist, having reached maturity, carried out several activities almost simultaneously. In 1954,
when he started to work in commercial art with his first poster for the Corona drawing books, it
was logical as he was in the commercial graphical art section in the municipal school of
decoration art in Strasbourg. But very quickly, most probably around 1955-195610, he also
started to work on children's books: he managed to publish his first work The Mellops Go Flying
as from 1957 in New York. His first cartoons, are dated the same year illustrating The Brave
Coward from the famous American New York Herald Tribune columnist, Art Buchwald, soon
followed by a series of books in the same style in 1960. But Tomi Ungerer's early days in
satirical art are not limited to the United States: thanks to the publication of his pictures in a
collection that the Swiss editor Daniel Keel had exclusively consecrated to the gender, entitled «
Ein Diogenes Tabu11 », he was also renowned in Europe. At the same period, erotic art started to
appear, though timidly, in cartoons from a book on love and marriage, Inside Marriage.
Also in 1960, the scope for Tomi Ungerer's future productions was already out lined: he started,
according to his own terms, a career with « meteoric activities ». A career which led over one
hundred an forty books to edition – ten in 1966 –, for which he was exclusively author and
published in several languages12, as well as hundreds of posters and prints.
Thérèse Willer
All rights reserved
Any partial or full reproduction of this text, is forbidden without prior permission from the
editors.
7. All of the pictures have been conserved thanks to Mme Alice Ungerer's maternal attention.
8. Mainly his trip to North Cape, in Norway, published in the The limping messenger in 1956.
9. Tomi Ungerer's collection [following « coll. T. U. »], n° 99.991.21.531.
10. His first sketches for children date back to these days.
11. In Cartoon 1960, which came out in 1959, and Look for the woman!, from 1960.
12. Including extreme oriental.
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TOMI UNGERER ABC BOOK
Strasbourg Museum Editions
16.5 x 20 cm
72 pages
around 50 coloured illustrations
Spiralé
7-12 yrs old
Temporary retail price: 18 euros
ISBN: 978-2-35125-056-3
Collector's edition collection
Publication Strasbourg October 2007
Office: November 2
Distribution: Volumen
Published for the opening of the Tomi Ungerer Museum— International Centre for Illustration,
this work, using a partially unedited ABC book illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, proposes to initiate
children to « vocabulary » and themes related to his line of work. In the form an ABC book, and
staying true to the author's wish, not to infantilise the texts aimed at children. Each letter of the
alphabet corresponds to several words suggesting the artist's universe (for example, for the
letter A: Alsace, Absurd, Accent, Accessories, Accumulation, Agitator, Alchemy, Animals,
Anticonformist, Assembly, Autodidact, Autobiographic). One of these words is selected and
developed by the reproduction of an emblematic work, a citation from Tomi Ungerer, as well as
several ideas for games or research for the child.
Imagined as a support that could be consulted during the museum's visit, as well as in school or
at home, the ABC book proposes the children to tell, write, read or draw stories based on Tomi
Ungerer's work.
Familiar images are reproduced from The Three Robbers or The Beast of Monsieur Racine as well
as publicity work, political campaign or even unedited drawings from the artist's childhood. A
biography in the form of a board game enabling to follow in a fun way, the artist's busy life. A
book to read and experiment with the family for a playful way of discovering the multiple sides of
this important figure in illustration art.
It is to be noted that a free edition for adults edited on the same principle, echoing the
children's, will be available for teachers and museum group tour guides.
Authors:
Thérèse Willer, Conservator from the Tomi Ungerer Museum — International Centre
of Illustration
Martine Debaene, public representative for the education department of the Strasbourg Museum
Sandrine Pons, teacher project officer
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12. CONFERENCE CYCLES
Strasbourg City Museums' auditorium
Four conferences will enable the public to become acquainted with the different aspects of the
illustrator's works: his long and exemplary collaboration with Diogenes editions in Zurich, his
voluminous production for children and an analysis on all of his graphical work will be the
themes.
Tuesday 4th of December - 18h30
Daniel Kampa, Editor for Diogenes Verlag in Zurich
Tomi Ungerer and Diogenes editions, an exemplary collaboration
Friday 7th of December - 18H30
Thérèse Willer, Conservator from the Tomi Ungerer Museum and Serge Kornmann, animated film
historian
From books for children to animated films: example of Tomi Ungerer
Tuesday 18th December - 18H30
Sophie van der Linden, Charles Perrault International Institute Directress
The Tomi Ungerer's children's books
Thursday 20th December - 18H30
Thérèse Willer, Conservator from the Tomi Ungerer Museum
Tomi Ungerer's graphical work
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13. EVENTS FOR THE OPENING OF THE TOMI UNGERER MUSEUM
The film « Tomi Ungerer. Stroke for stroke »
This film, co-produced by Bix Films and Alsatic TV, directed by Philippe Poirier in 2007 on Tomi
Ungerer's work, loop projected in the Tomi Ungerer museum.
wwwbixfilms.fr
www.alsatic.com
Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace (The latest news from Alsace)
The regional newspaper edits a portfolio with drawings from the Tomi Ungerer Museum
collection, published every month from November 2006 to November 2007 in the daily pages.
www.dna.fr
The "Théâtre de la Choucrouterie" show, Strasbourg
The "Théâtre de la Choucrouterie" proposes a show on Tomi Ungerer entittled « I will be the
traveller ». In Oberhausbergen on the 22nd of September 2007 and in the Choucrouterie in the
autumn.
The Bas-Rhin General Council Exposition
The exposition « A story for us to remember » on Tomi Ungerer's after war archives, will be held
at the Alsace-Moselle Memorial in Schirmeck from the 9th of November to the 6th of January
2008.
The "Maison de l’Alsace", Paris
A showcase dedicated to the Tomi Ungerer Museum will be visible in the autumn "La Maison de
l’Alsace".
Sculpture project in collaboration with the European Centre of Contemporary
Art Actions, Strasbourg
Tomi Ungerer having imagined the project of a sculpture for the front of the Jean-Jacques Henner
House part of the Work & Hope association located in Cronenbourg, the CEAAC has collaborated
with the architects Charles Altorfer and Frédéric Keiff to elaborate
this job, which will be carried out during 2007.
The project is to have a massive arm reaching out from the building's wall and touch one of the
street lamps, in a way that it will look like the it is holding out a giant flower.
Preview of the film « The Three Robbers », Strasbourg
The company Gebeka films distributes in France the animated film adapted from Tomi Ungerer
book and will be associated with the town of Strasbourg for a preview at the Star cinema
(partnership to be defined).
Legend available on page 23
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Legend available on page 21
14. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
All public activities
At the museum
- Panorama visits: they enable to discover the strong points of the collections accompanied
by a lecturer, in the perspective of exchange and discussion. Wednesdays at 7pm and Saturdays
at 1pm
- Guided tours in German: Sundays at 1pm (except the first Sundays of the month)
- « Le temps d’une rencontre (When together) »: one of Strasbourg Museum's conservators, or a
guest, shares his/her passion on a book, an artist, a room, a technique or an exposition
- « 1 hour, 1 book »: at lunch time « 1 hour, 1 book » proposes an in-depth reflexion on Tomi
Ungerer's books for children.
Practical:
The guided tours for adults can be organised in the morning
Activities for young visitors - families
Under the leadership of the educational department, a team of professional illustrators, with the
complicity of the students from the School of decorative arts (illustration and illustration didactic
workshops), invent a programme of activities for the young public and
schools (workshops, story reading, interactive tours...)
Family visitors
Meet Tomi Ungerer's Allumette
Before or after the TJP show
Fun and games with an illustrator
Mini-workshops for children with the family
At the Strasbourg City Museums' auditorium– Museum of modern and contemporary art
« Free your pencil »: drawing workshop accompanied by an illustrator enabling to get to know
Tomi Ungerer's characters.
School groups
A the Strasbourg City Museums' auditorium – Museum of modern and contemporary art
Specially designed sessions are organised to provide an initiation on illustration and the strange
world of Tomi Ungerer's art, including animated films, a story telling conference and a
documentary on the artist.
Presentations for teachers and people in charge of groups
(Different themes are addressed such as « The museum and the pedagogic tools »).
Information and reservations
Museum Education Department
Tel.: 03 88 88 50 50
The activity programme can be found on Strasbourg City's internet
site: www.muses-strasbourg.org
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15. PHOTOS AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESS
Drawings for children
Tomi Ungerer
No title, drawing for Neue
Freunde,
2007
Chinese ink wash and colour
inks, colour crayons and pastel
highlighters on tracing paper
32.2 x 24 cm
© Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credits: Mathieu Bertola
Tomi Ungerer
No title [ Children’s Posters
series:
« Sleeping Beauty »], 1970
Offset reproduction on glazed
paper
97 × 64 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, drawing for Flix, 1997
Chinese ink and colour ink
wash on tracing paper
30.5 x 24 cm
© Strasbourg Museum Editions /
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Nicolas Fussler
Tomi Ungerer
No title, drawing for The Hat,
around 1968
Chinese ink and colour ink
wash on tracing paper
30.2 x 24 cm
© Strasbourg Museum Editions /
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, front page of Zeralda's
Ogre, around 1966
Chinese Ink, collage and white
gouache
highlighting on tracing paper
36.6 x 29.2 cm (1)
Colour ink wash on drawing
paper
30 x 21.6 cm (2)
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, drawing for Lear’s
Nonsense
Verses, around 1966
Chinese ink and colour ink wash
on white card board
30.1 x 24.8 cm (2)
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
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Tomi Ungerer
« Es klappert die Mühle am
rauschenden
Bach », Das grosse Liederbuch
around 1975
Colour ink wash
on tracing paper
28 x 24 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, drawing for The three
Robbers, 1961
Chinese ink and colour ink wash
on paper
30 x 23.5 cm
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title [« Rotkäppchen », Little
Red
Riding Hood], illustration for Das
Tomi Ungerers Märchenbuch,
around 1973
Chinese ink and colour ink wash
on the back cover of printed card
board
29.7 x 22 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, drawing for the
Sorcerer's Apprentice, around
1968
Chinese ink and colour ink wash
wash on tracing paper
32.5 x 24.8 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
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Tomi Ungerer
No kiss for Mother, 1973
Black paper on tracing paper
24.6 x 19.3 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credits: Mathieu Bertola
Posters
Tomi Ungerer
« Der kleine Unterschied », around 1979
Poster for a publicity agency
Robert Pütz
Offset reproduction
84 x 59 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
« Eat », 1967
Poster against
the war in Vietnam
Offset reproduction
68 x 53 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Nicolas Fussler
Tomi Ungerer
« Get beneath the Surface.
The New York Times »
poster, 1960
Offset reproduction
116 x 150 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title [publicity project for The
New York Times], 1965
Chinese ink wash and colour
inks on pasted paper
36 x 51 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Nicolas Fussler
Tomi Ungerer
« Black power/White power », 1967
Poster against
racial segregation
Offset reproduction
71 x 50 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, 1966
project for the 50th anniversarry of
the American Institute of Graphic Arts
Chinese ink and colour ink wash
on carboard paper
70.7 x 54.7 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Nicolas Fussler
Tomi Ungerer
« Expect the Unexpected »
poster for The Village Voice, 1968
Reproduction offset, 114 x 75 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, 1968
Poster project for the Truc
shopping mall in Boston
Colour ink wash on drawing
43.3 x 32.1 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title [« Cultive tes racines et planteles
dans les étoiles (Cultivate your roots and
plant them in the stars)»], poster project
for the European Counsil, 1994
Chinese ink, colour ink wash
and colour crayons on tracing paper
42.7 x 35.5 cm
© Musées de Strasbourg / Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
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Other
Tomi Ungerer
Mine de rien (Inconspicuously), 1980s
Chinese Ink and green ink wash on
tracing paper
29.5 x 35.5 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title, 2007
Chinese Ink wash, sepia ink,
pencil, colour and pastel
crayon on cut out tracing paper
18.5 x 19.8 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title [« La Diva de l’Europe (The
European Diva)» dessin
for Europolitain], 1998
Chinese ink wash and colour
inks, white gouache highlighters on
paper
Dimensions: 36 x 25.5 cm
© Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
« Sourire-Dentifrice (Toothpaste smile»,
1960s
Sculptured and painted wood, sectioned
galvanised metal sculpture
22 x 21 x 23 cm
© Strasbourg Museums / Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
No title
[« Juge Willard Goiterson from Dallas… »]
drawings for The Party, around 1966
Chinese Ink ans wash on white paper
46 x 60.5 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
« Apocalypse », unedited drawing
Chinese ink and colour ink wash
on paper
83 x 61 cm
© Strasbourg Museums / Tomi Ungerer
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
Rapt, 1981-1982
[drawing for Rigor Mortis, 1983]
Chinese ink and sepia ink on tracing
paper
32.4 x 30.8 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Photo credit: Martin Bernhart
Tomi Ungerer
Ubu [poster project for the Dortmund
theater], 1985
Colour ink wash on bristol
paper
73.3 x 50 cm
© Strasbourg Museums/
Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich
Tomi Ungerer
No title, unedited illustration of the
song Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht in
Das grosse Liederbuch, 1975
Chinese ink, colour ink wash
and gouache on tracing paper
35.5 x 28 cm
© Strasbourg Museums / Tomi Ungerer
Photo credits: Mathieu Bertola
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16. PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Strasbourg City Museums
Directrice: Joëlle Pijaudier-Cabot
Tomi Ungerer Museum — International Centre of Illustration
2, avenue de la Marseillaise
67076 Strasbourg Cedex
Tel. : 03 69 06 37 27 - Fax: 03 69 06 37 28
Conservator: Thérèse Willer
Conservation assistants: Claire Hirner and Cécile Ripoll
Open to public: the 2nd November 2007
Opening hours:
From 12pm to 6pm from Lundi and Vendredi. Closed on Tuesdays
From 10am to 6pm Saturday to Sunday
The museums are closed the 1st Janurary, Good Friday, 1st May, 1st and 11th of November
25 December.
Prices: Normal: 4 discount: 2
Free: first Sundays of the month; under 18; CUS agents with their badge;
Culture, AtoutVoir and Édu’Pass disabled visitors; art and art
history students; people seeking employment, social
benefitors.
From 1st July 31 December 2007, for the purchase of a ticket in one of the 10 Strasbourg
Museums, a ticket will be offered for any one of the other Museums of the network. Ticket
valid up to 31 January 2008.
Derived products:
Mouse pads, letter paper, magnetic page markers, magnets, calendars, tee-shirts,
post cards, posters, mugs, hand bags, lithographs, post-its.
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APPENDICES
Tomi Ungerer Biographie
1931
Jean-Thomas Ungerer, called Tomi, was born in Strasbourg on the 28th of November, his
father's name Théodore was an engineer, astronomic clock maker, artist and historian, and his
mother's Alice, whose maiden name was Esseler.
1935
After Théodore Ungerer died, the family moved Logelbach, a district in Colmar. The young Tomi
started to draw.
1939-1945
During the annexation of Alsace by Germany, he was subject to the Nazi indoctrination in his
school Colmar, and was forbidden to speak Alsatian when the French language was reestablished.
1946-1948
In his books, Tomi related his many bike journeys across France
1950-1951
He decided, after missing the second part of his general education exams (in his school report,
his headmaster said that he was "original in a deliberately perverse and subversive way"), to
hitch hike to the North Cape, in Norway; in Lapland, he crossed the Russian border lines. His
drawings from those days are influenced by the existentialism movement.
1952-1953
He enrolled in the Algerian méhariste (Camel corps), but after falling seriously ill, he was
definitively reformed. In October 1953, he started at the Municipal school of decorative arts in
Strasbourg. It was at this time that he started to become interested in the united States through
meeting Fulbright students (a Franco-American commission for cultural and university exchanges
created in 1946) and visiting the American Culture Centre in Strasbourg. He discovered a
passion for American literature, jazz music and the cartoonists from the New Yorker.
1954-1955
He worked for a year as a commercial artist for local companies.
1956
After rambling round several European countries, he arrived in New York, with according to his
own terms, « 60 dollars in his pocket and a suitcase full of drawings and manuscripts». He did
his first publicity campaign for Burroughs' calculators.
1957
He moved to New York. His first book for children, The Mellops Go Flying published by Harper
and Row and obtained the famous prize at the Spring Book Festival. He was also cartoonist for
the Esquire, Life, Holiday, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times magazines
1959
The Society of Illustrators of New York awarded him the gold medal.
1960
Der schönste Tag (Le Plus Beau Jour " The Best Day"), a book of cartoons signs the start of his
collaboration with Diogenes Verlag in Zurich, came out in the same time as Inside Marriage in
New York.
1961
Die drei Räuber (The Three Robbers) is the first book for children that he published in
Europe.
1962
A retrospective of his work is organised in Berlin under the guidance of Willy Brandt.
1963
He exposes his satirical paintings in the Arcy gallery in New York.
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1966
The Party , in which he critiques the New York society, is edited.
1967
He brought out a series of virulent posters against racial segregation and the war in Vietnam. In
Montreal, he founded with his two friends, François Dallegret and Gordon Sheppard, a television
and cinema film company, Wild Oats.
1969
With his book Fornicon, he attacked the mechanisation of sexuality.
1971
He left New York and moved to a farm on the Presque-isle of New Scotland, in Canada.
1973
Publication of No Kiss for Mother, an autobiographic book for children.
1974
Publication of Allumette, after twenty years of silence in literature for, youths.
1975
He made an important donation of his work and his toy collection the Strasbourg Museum who
dedicate a retrospective exhibition on him. He illustrated a collection of popular German songs,
Das grosse Liederbuch (The Big Song Book), his biggest success in the book shops.
1976
Tomi Ungerer moved to Ireland. Publication of Totempole regrouping erotic drawings done
between 1968 and 1975.
1979
Publication Abracadabra regrouping the advertising made in collaboration with Robert Pütz in
Germany, from Babylon,a book a satirical drawings, et de Politrics, a book a political drawings
1981
The exhibition organised in the Museum of decorative art in Paris by François Mathey crowned
twenty five years of career for Tomi Ungerer. The International Caricature Show in Montreal
designated him world cartoonist of the year.
1983
He was awarded the Burckhart prize from the Goethe foundation in Basel. Two books, Heute
hier, Morgen fort and Slow Agony regroup drawings done during his Canadian period.
1984
In Tomi Ungerer’s Schwarzbuch (Tomi Ungerer's black book), he takes position against nuclear
power. The Commander of Arts and Letters medallion was awarded by Jack Lang, Minister of
Culture.
1986
After several trips to Hamburg, he relates and draws a reportage on the particular world of
prostitution, the « dominas », in Schutzengel der Hölle (the Guardian Angels from Hell).
1987
He was project officer for Jack Lang for the Franco-German exchanges
1988
He drew the plans for a monument erected for the bimillenium of Strasbourg, the Aqueduc de
Janus, which represents the City's double culture.
1990
The drawings of Amnesty Animal, exposed during the world congress in basel for the protection of
animals, shows his commitment in this area.
1991
For his sixtieth birthday, the first volume of is souvenirs, "A Childhood under the Nazis, was
published. In November, Tomi Ungerer made a second donation of his works and toy collection
to the City of Strasbourg.
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1992
He is cited as one of the five hundred World Leaders of Influence by the American Biographical
Institute.
1994
The book, Poster, regroups all of his publicity works, published by Diogenes Verlag.
1995
He received the national prize of Graphic Art by the French Minister of Culture.
1996
Publication of Flix, his first book for children since 1974. He renews with American edition with
the publication of Cats as Cats Can.
1998
He received the Hans Christian Andersen award, the little Nobel children’s books, for all of his
works in this domain.
1999
Publication of Otto, a book for children about Nazism and the war. He designed the plans for a
children's garden in the shape of a cat in the town of Karlsruhe.
2000
He was entitled ambassador of the European Council for childhood and education.
2001
Tomi Ungerer's works are exposed for the first time in Japan. An exhibition on the New York
years is presented at the Museum of modern and contemporary art in Strasbourg on the
occasion of the artist's seventieth birthday He was promoted Legion of Honour Officer.
2002
With the publication of ,From Father to Son a book on his father, Tomi Ungerer started his family
biography
2003
He received the Erich Kästner award
2004
He is awarded the Doctor’s Degree of Honour by the University of Karlsruhe.
2006
He started to collaborate with the City of Plochingen in Germany for the decorating of public
toilettes.
2007
He donated to the City of Strasbourg his personal library including over one thousand five
hundred books Opening of the Tomi Ungerer Museum, International Centre of illustration in
Strasbourg.
Thérèse Willer
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SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Children's books
The Three Robbers, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1968.
Moon man, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1969.
Zeralda's Ogre, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1971.
The Hat, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1971.
Barbara HAZEN and Adolphe CHAGOT, The aprentice sorcerer, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1971.
The Beast of Mr Racine, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1972.
Allumette, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1974.
The farmer, his son and the donkey, Paris, l’école des loisirs, « Lutin poche », 1975.
Les Histoires farfelues de Papaski, Paris, Tournai, Casterman, 1977.
Emile, Paris, l’école des loisirs, « Lutin poche », 1978.
Emile, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1978.
Crictor, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1978.
Orlando, the brave vulture Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1978.
The Mellops go flying, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1979.
No kiss for Mother, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1979.
Johanna SPYRI, Heidi's years of apprenticeship and travel, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1979.
ID., Heidi, Monts et Merveilles, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1979.
The Mellops strike oil, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1980.
Christmas Eve at the Mellops, Paris, l’école des loisirs, « Lutin poche », 1980.
The Mellops Go Spelunking, Paris, l’école des loisirs, « Lutin poche », 1980.
Snail, where are you?, Paris, Circonflexe, « Aux couleurs du monde », 1992.
One, Two, Where's my shoe, Paris, Circonflexe, « Aux couleurs du monde »,1992.
André Hodeir, Warwick's three bottles, Paris, Circonflexe, 1993.
Flix, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1997.
Tortoni Tremelo the Cursed Musician, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1998.
Otto: Biographie of a Teddy Bear, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1999.
The Blue Cloud, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 2000.
Amie-ami, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 2007.
Adult Books
The Underground Sketchbook, Paris, Denoël, 1964.
The Party, Paris, Albin Michel, 1976.
Fornicon, Paris, ed. Jean-Claude Simoën, 1978.
Babylone, Paris, Arthur Hubschmid édit, 1979.
Abracadra, Paris, ed. Jean-Claude Simoën, 1979.
Joy of Frogs, Paris, Herscher, 1985.
Testament. Collection of satirical drawings 1960-1980, Paris, Herscher, 1985.
Danièle BRISON, Tony SCHNEIDER, Jean-Louis SCHNEIDER, Alsation cooking, Strasbourg,
Bueb & Reumaux, 1985.
Nos années de boucherie, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1987.
L’Alsace en torts et de travers, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1988.
Clic-Clac, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1989.
Les Animaux de Tomi Ungerer, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1990.
A Childhood under the Nazis, Childhood Drawings and Memories, Strasbourg, La Nuée
bleue/DNA, 1991.
Fatras, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Les Vents d’ouest, 1991.
Posters, Paris, l’école des loisirs, 1994.
Cats as Cats Can, Paris, Le Cherche-midi, 1998.
Europolitan, Strasbourg, Anstett, 1998.
Hallali, Strasbourg, Argentoratum, 1999.
Erotoscope, Cologne, Taschen Verlag, 2001.
Heart to Heart, Paris, Le Cherche-midi, 2004.
Claude MOLLARD, le Très Grand Véda, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.
My cathedrals, Strasbourg, La Nuée bleue/DNA, 2007.
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Written by Tomi Ungerer
Vracs, Paris, Le Cherche-midi, 2001.
Acadie, Paris, Le Cherche-midi, 2002.
De père en fils, Strasbourg, Le Nuée bleue/DNA, 2002.
About Tomi Ungerer
Patrick Hamm, les Cartes postales de Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg, Éditions du Rhin, 1991.
Paul Beoglin, Mon Alsace, Strasbourg, Le Nuée bleue/DNA, 1997.
For a complete bibliography, see the one in the Musée Tomi Ungerer catalogue,
Éditions des Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, 2007
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