Im
Herbst 2004 beauftragte DER SPIEGEL bei mir einen Entwurf für das Titelbild zum
Thema "Jammertal Ost".
Meine
Zeichnung entstand in Anlehnung an Saul Steinbergs berühmtem Cover "View from
9th Ave" für den "New Yorker" aus den Siebziger Jahren und illustriert, wie
der Boden unter verschiedenen Wahrzeichen des Ostens – Brandenburger Tor,
Fernsehturm am Alex, Dresdner Frauenkirche, Brocken, Leipziger Messeturm und
Plattenbauten –, wegbricht.
Im Hintergrund erkennt man man "westliche" Wahrzeichen wie die Münchner
Frauenkirche oder den Kölner Dom sowie "den Rest der Welt".
Bei
der Arbeit an dem Bild wurde ich von einem Filmteam des SPIEGEL in meinem
Atelier gefilmt. Dieses Material wurde für einen Videoclip von SPIEGEL TV
verwendet, das während der Ausstellung "Die Kunst des SPIEGEL -
Titel-Illustrationen aus fünf Jahrzehnten" vom 5. November 2004 bis 23. Januar
2005 in den Deichtorhallen Hamburg gezeigt wurde.
Weitere Stationen der Ausstellungstournee waren Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf,
München und zum Abschluss im Januar 2006 das "Museum of American Illustration"
in New York.
Documentary from DER SPIEGEL
Cover Art for DER
SPIEGEL Magazine
DER SPIEGEL, Germany's largest and most influential weekly news
magazine, contracted a cover illustration on the topic of East-German
disintegration in 2004 and included the process of creating the art in a
TV documentary accompanying the art exhibition, "The Art of DER
SPIEGEL."
ER SPIEGEL, Germany's
largest and most influential weekly news magazine, contracted a
cover illustration in the fall of 2004 on the topic of
East-German disintegration.
I designed the image after Saul Steinberg's
famous 1970's "View from 9th Ave" cover for the New Yorker magazine. It
shows prominent Eastern landmarks colliding as the ground gives away.
Oliver working on the illustration
entitled, "Jammertal Ost" ("Eastern Vale of Tears")
My illustration on the topic of
"Jammertal Ost" has
been created using ink, pencil, and the computer.
A film
team from DER SPIEGEL had me filmed during the process of
designing the illustration.
Extracts from that session were used for a SPIEGEL TV video clip which
was shown at the
well-known Deichtorhallen museum in November in an exhibition commemorating 50 years of
SPIEGEL cover illustration art.
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more variations on “A View of the World from 9th Ave”!
The exhibition started out in
Hamburg, and then moved on to various German cities. It was also shown at the Museum of American Illustration in
New York in
January of
2006.
The DVD contains
a five-minute documentary about the
development of SPIEGEL covers featuring three
artists working on DER SPIEGEL covers, including myself. This is
an excerpt.
Conceived, directed and filmed by Monika Zucht / DER SPIEGEL.
Edited by Julia Dickopp. (c) 2004 SPIEGEL TV
Screenshot from the video clip
showing Oliver at his desk.
Illustrations
from 2010
DER SPIEGEL, Germany's largest and most influential weekly news
magazine, contracted a cover illustration on the topic of East-German
disintegration in 2004 and included the process of creating the art in a
TV documentary accompanying the art exhibition, "The Art of DER
SPIEGEL."
