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Alfons Mitgutsch , known as Ali Mitgutsch , born August 21, 1935 in Munich , Germany, is a German author of picture books and professional advertising Illustrator . He is known as father of the Hidden Object Books.
Hidden object artist Ali Mitgutsch the funny way of language acquisition
Life
As a child the Mitgutsch family was evacuated to Allgäu in World War II due to airstrike back bombing on Munich. Return the Munich he trained at Graphical Academy as a lithographer which is a former profession of manual photo editing, layout and printing. In the 1960s, Kurt Seelmann, a psychologist for children inspired him to create a special kind of picture books for children.
Mitgutsch became famous for his Wimmelbilder-Books made for children. Opening such book at any page it shows lots of everyday scenes in a single painting across both pages on top.
Rundherum in meine Stadt (Around in my city) released in 1968 is known as the first Wimmel-book in German-speaking countries.
Mitgutsch is living in Munich, the city of his birth where he caught most of the inspirations for his paintings.
together with Ingmar Gregorzewski: Heart lighter: My life as a child , (heard lighter: my childhood) Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423280570.
Picture Books
"Pepe's Hat" (1959)
"Ulu's adventurous journey" (1960 in the Munich Bilderbuch Verlag)
"Nico Finds Treasure" (1961)
"All around in my city" (1968 German Youth Literature Prize)
In our Village (1970 )
"Come to the Water" (1971)
"In the countryside"
"All About the Bike" (1975)
"All About the Ship" (1977)
"Here in the Mountains" (1979)
"What 's teeming here "
"The Witch and the Seven Fexes"
"Our Big City" (1988)
"Knights Book "
"Angels in the Workshop"
"Departure of Santa Clauses"
"My most beautiful picture book"
"The Big Pirate Hidden Object Book"
"Everyone Plays Along"
"My huge pirate hidden object book"
"My Huge Hidden Object Search Book" (2010)
"Fizzle is building a castle" , Otto Maier, Ravensburg, 1992, Little Ravensburger series