Columbus by ingri and edgar daulaire biography

Wife-and-husband illustrator and children's writer duo

Ingri d'Aulaire (December 27, 1904 – Oct 24, 1980) and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (September 30, 1898 – May 1, 1986) were writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as dinky team, completing almost all operate their well-known works together.

Honourableness couple immigrated to the Affiliated States from Europe and specious on books that focused grouping history such as Abraham Lincoln, which won the 1940 Caldecott Medal. They were part confront the group of immigrant artists composed of Feodor Rojankovsky, Roger Duvoisin, Ludwig Bemelmans, Miska Petersham and Tibor Gergely, who helped shape the Golden Age matching picture books in mid-twentieth-century America.^[1]

Background

Edgar Parin, originally of Swiss bloodline, was born in Munich, Frg to an Italian portrait catamount Gino Parin and Ella Auler, a talented artist and performer who had moved from Lowpriced.

Louis to Paris. His parents separated when Parin was appal years old and he grew up spending time with educate, travelling around Europe with coronate father.^[2] Edgar Parin took ruler mother's maiden name when she changed it from Auler denote d'Aulaire. After studying architecture put on view a year in Munich, unquestionable began art studies at neat School of Arts and Crafts (German:Kunstgewerbeschule).

Edgar, a pupil make famous Hans Hofmann and Henri Matisse,^[3] studied fresco in Florence, rouged murals in France and Norge, and exhibited in Paris, Songster and Oslo. He illustrated multitudinous books in Germany from 1922 to 1926 and painted frescoes in Norway from 1926 interrupt 1927.

Ingri Mortenson was domestic in Kongsberg, Norway into clean up artistic family.

Her uncle, diplomat instance, was a clergyman most recent poet who translated the Scandinavian Eddas into Norwegian and lay his own poetry to strain by Edvard Grieg.^[2] When she was 15, the Norwegian maestro Harriet Backer encouraged her lodging pursue art as a existence, and Ingri later studied unexpected result art schools in Norway, Deutschland and France.

Ingri and Edgar met in Munich when Ingri was an art student.^[3][4] They were married in 1925. Precise modest insurance settlement following cool near-fatal bus–trolley collision in Town provided the seed money convey Edgar's steerage-class voyage to depiction U.S. to scout for opportunities.

He garnered enough commissions illustrating books to send for Ingri and they moved into spick cold-water walk-up flat in Borough in 1929.

At first they pursued separate careers. Edgar obtuse on illustrating books using in the clear block engravings and stone lithography; Ingri garnered commissions to pigment portraits of prominent businessmen.

Their work caught the eye defer to the director of the Contemporary York Public Library. Acting expulsion her suggestion, the d'Aulaires sure to turn their talents concern children's books and collaborated be create The Magic Rug manner 1931. Shortly thereafter they became U.S. citizens. They lived attend to worked in Wilton, Connecticut, let alone 1941 until their deaths play a part the 1980s.

They also difficult a farm in Royalton, Vermont.

Literary works

Many of the d'Aulaires' early books depict the set and folktales of Norway: Ola, Children of the Northlights, East of the Sun and Westernmost of the Moon. Later their attention shifted to their adoptive country and they produced books about American heroes such by the same token Pocahontas, Benjamin Franklin, and Throw Bill.

Using their research lecturer travel experiences as inspiration, dignity husband-and-wife team produced 27 picturesque books for children including visit picture books. Edgar illustrated Children of the Soil: A Tale of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon, who was a 1932 Newbery Medal runner-up for that profession.

The d'Aulaires won the position annual Caldecott Medal in 1940 for Abraham Lincoln, a picture-book life of the 16th U.S.

President.^[5] They won the 1953 Boy's Club award for their version of Buffalo Bill (1952).

Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, available by Doubleday in 1962, was an elaborately illustrated compendium break on Greek mythology, 192 pages bundle 46 chapters.^[6]

In 1967, they publicised Norse Gods and Giants, family circle on the Prose Edda talented Poetic Edda.^[7] The 154-page publication presents 30 Norse myths queue includes most of the primary stories of the Norse pantheon.^[8]

D'Aulaires' Trolls was one of The New York Times Book Review outstanding books of 1972.

Speedy was also a National Picture perfect Award finalist.^[9] They completed unadorned sequel in 1976, The Severe Troll Bird, an adaptation chide one of their earlier scowl, Ola and Blakken.

Reprints

In 2005, New York Review Books reissued Norse Gods and Giants mess the name d'Aulaires' Book remove Norse Myths.

This volume was carefully printed to reproduce rendering vibrant color and texture surrounding the original lithographs, and includes a glowing foreword by Archangel Chabon.^[8] Its immediate popularity prompted NYRB to reissue d'Aulaire's Trolls in 2006, which likewise was a meticulous reprint of representation 1972 original pressing.

That was followed by a reprint make out The Terrible Troll Bird.

Animals Everywhere was reprinted and retitled d'Aulaires' Book of Animals knock over late April 2007, followed do without a new edition of The Two Cars, then by Too Big and Foxie, a recital of Anton Chekhov's short recounting "Kashtanka".

In 2016, University chide Minnesota Press reissued East all but the Sun and West take possession of the Moon under the appellation d'Aulaires' Book of Norwegian Folktales.

Translations

In 2007 and 2008, respectively, greatness Italian publisher Donzelli Editori reissued smaller-format Italian language editions obey Norse Myths, retitled Miti Give Nord, and Trolls, retitled Il Libro Dei Troll.

Several fine the d'Aulaires' books are along with available in Korean and Altaic language editions.

Awards

The d'Aulaires everyday the Catholic Library Association Regina Medal for "continued distinguished customs to children's literature" in 1970.^[10][11] They were the 1974 U.S.

nominee for the biennial, global Hans Christian Andersen Award escort children's illustrators.^[12]

The d'Aulaires and Abraham Lincoln won the Caldecott Medallion from the American Library Corporation in 1940, recognizing the earlier year's "most distinguished American reach book for children".^[5]Buffalo Bill (1952) won the 1953 Boy's Cudgel award.

D'Aulaires' Trolls (1972) was a finalist for the yearlong National Book Award, Children's Literature^[9] and a New York Date Book Review "outstanding book" stake out 1972.

Works

• The Magic Rug, Doubleday, 1931
• Ola, Doubleday, 1932 * %%
• Ola remarkable Blakken, Doubleday, 1933
• The Conquest discover the Atlantic, Viking Press, 1933
• The Lord's Prayer, Doubleday, 1934
• Children near the Northlights, Viking Press, 1935 * %
• George Washington, Beautiful Feet Books, 1936 * ∗
• East of position Sun and West of leadership Moon, Viking Press, 1938 * %%%
• Abraham Lincoln, Doubleday, Doran, 1939 * ∗
• Animals Everywhere, Doubleday, 1940 | * ∗
• Leif the Lucky, Doubleday, Doran, 1941 * ∗
• The Lead Spangled Banner, Doubleday, Doran, 1942
• Don’t Count Your Chicks, Doubleday, 1943
• Wings for Per, Doubleday, 1944
• Too Big, Doubleday, 1945 *
• Pocahontas, Doubleday, 1946 * ∗
• Nils, Doubleday, 1948
• Foxie, Doubleday, 1949 *
• Benjamin Franklin, Doubleday, 1950 * ∗
• Buffalo Bill, Doubleday, 1952 * ∗
• The Two Cars, Doubleday, 1955 * ^[13]
• Columbus, Doubleday, 1955 * ∗
• The Magic Meadow, Doubleday, 1958
• d'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, Doubleday, 1962 * ∗ (Also available as an unabridged acoustic CD narrated by Paul Prelate, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner, pivotal Matthew Broderick.)∗
• Norse Gods and Giants, Doubleday, 1967 * † ∗
• Trolls, Doubleday, 1972 * # ∗
• The Terrible Troll Bird, Doubleday, 1976 * ‡ ^[14]

* Freshly in print
| Reissued as d'Aulaire's Book of Animals, New York Review Books, 2007^[15]
# Reissued as d'Aulaires' Trolls, New York Review Books, 2006
† Reissued as d'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, Novel York Review Books, 2005
‡ Based on the sooner Ola and Blakken
% Reissued stop the University of Minnesota Force, 2012
%% Reissued by blue blood the gentry University of Minnesota Press, 2013
%%% Reissued as d'Aulaires Soft-cover of Norwegian Folktales, University go rotten Minnesota Press, 2016

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