Rudi Hurzlmeier
* 1952 Kloster Mallersdorf / Lower Bavaria
Vita
Stages • years of training and travel as a gas station attendant, dressman, autopsy assistant, hotel bus cook, scenery maker and antique dealer, moved to Munich in the 70s to dedicate himself to comic painting and drawing, author of comic and cartoon volumes, satirical city guides and non-fiction books, theoretical works and books that do not fit in any category
Awards • German Cartoon Prize 2004/2010/2014, Sondermann Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006, Göttinger Elch (Göttingen Moose) 2015, Lead Award 2016
Exhibitions • over 100 solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums, e.g. Cartoonmuseum Basel, Wilhelm Busch-Museum Hannover, Caricatura Museum Frankfurt, Karikaturmuseum Krems, Gulbransson Museum Tegernsee, Goethe Institut Istanbul, Instituto Cervantes Quito/Ecuador, Centre Pompidou Paris
Commissions • regular contributor to the satirical magazine "Titanic", numerous articles for magazines and newspapers, such as STERN, Süddeutsche Zeitung, FAZ, SPIEGEL, and many others; screenwriting and equipment work for television; 45 book publications, among others in collaboration with Harry Rowohlt, Thomas Gsella and Hans Zippert
Catalogue
Jedem Tierchen sein Pläsierchen / Rudi Hurzlmeier. Bedichtet von Harry Rowohlt, vorgestellt von Hans Zippert, erzählt von Frank Schulz, erinnert von Rudi Hurzlmeier. - Leipzig : Haffmans Verl. bei Zweitausendeins, 2012. - 140 S., überw. Abb., € 19,90