Helmut Bischoff and Klaus Winter VI

The Happy Owls translated by Linda R. Edelberg, illustrated by Klaus Winter and Helmut Bischoff. Published by Lion Press: 1967. As you can see from the peacock above this book is stunningly illustrated with woodcuts. 

Helmut Bischoff and Klaus Winter V

'Hoppla-Hoppla Bauersmann', by Klass Winter and Helmut Bischoff. published by 1964, by Julius Beltz. For now this is all the pages I can find of this book, but as with many others over time if more becomes available I will add to the relevant post.

Helmut Bischoff and Klaus Winter IV

 

'The king and the parrot, and other fables',  by Klaus Winter and Helmut Bischoff.  Published in 1969. This book features incredible composite wood-cuts with wonderful use of colour. Klaus Winter and Helmut Bischoff collaborated as artists working across illustration, packaging, photography, and graphic design, developing a multidisciplinary approach that blurred the boundaries between design and applied art.

Nicolas Sidjakov III

'Harlequin & Mother Goose', written by Ruth Robbins illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov, Published in1965 by Parnassus Press.

Beni Montresor V

I love the happy images of the king and queen in black and white, between entertaining their guests.

My last post for a while on the miraculous work of Beni Montresor. 'May I bring a friend?' was a Caldecott winning book written by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers and illustrated by Beni Montresor, published in 1990.

Beni Montresor III

 "When I was a little child, I spent hours and hours looking enchantedly at walls covered with medieval and renaissance frescoes, telling stories about heros and their adventures, saints and their miracles. All the churches and palaces in Italy are covered with these tales, which were created for people who didn't know how to read, but wanted to learn. Those walls were my picture books_ and I spent hours living wiith them, intregues by everything I saw happen in them. I made this book thinking of those walls of my childhod. It is the memory of a little boy who didn't yet know how to read, and his emotions upon seeing so many mysterious images." Beni Montresor writing about this book; I saw a ship a sailing.

 

'I Saw a Ship a Sailing' by Beni Montresor, published in 1967, a surreal, lurid masterpiece illustrating nursery rhymes known by us all, but planting images and seeds of imagination.