Kurt Wiese

Kurt Wiese(April 22, 1887-May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator of almost three hundred books by other authors.

World War One

Wiese traveled in China selling merchandise as a young man. On the outbreak of WWI, he was captured by the Japanese, and turned over to the British. He spent five years as a prisoner, most of them in Australia, where his fascination for the animal life inspired him to start sketching. [ [http://www.michenermuseum.org/bucksartists/artist.php?artist=302 James A. Michener Art Museum: Bucks County Artists ] ]

United States

In 1927 Wiese moved to the United States. In 1930 he married Gertrude Hansen. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children’s books and illustrated another 300 for other authors. His first critical success was with illustrations for Felix Salten's "Bambi" in 1929. [ [http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/04apr/4-21wiese.html Kurt Wiese ] ]

Awards

*Caldecott Honor Book Award in 1946 for "You Can Write Chinese".
*Caldecott Honor Book Award in 1948 for "Fish in the Air".
*Newbery Award winner "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze"(illustrator).
*Newbery Honor books "Honk the Moose", "Li Lun", "Lad of Courage", and "Daughter of the Mountains"(illustrator)

Books and Illustrations

(partial listing from Worldcat.org)
*"All about volcanoes and earthquakes"; illustrated by Kurt Wiese. by Frederick H. Pough. Publisher: New York, Random House [1953]
*"The story about Ping", by Marjorie Flack; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York Viking Press, ©1933.
*"The Five Chinese Brothers", by Claire Huchet Bishop; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York Coward-McCann [©1938]
*"The truffle pig", by Claire Huchet Bishop; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan [1971]
*"Bambi" by Felix Salten; Whittaker Chambers; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [©1929]
*"The art of Freddy" by Walter R. Brooks; Kurt Wiese; Michael Cart. Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2002.
*"Freddy the detective", by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York, A.A. Knopf, 1932.
*"Young Fu of the upper Yangtze", by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis. Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] John C. Winston Co. [©1932]
*"Freddy and the Bean Home News" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2000.
*"Daughter of the mountains"; by Louise Rankin; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York, Viking Press [©1948]
*"Freddy and the Bean Home News" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2000.
*"All the Mowgli stories" by Rudyard Kipling; Kurt Wiese; Kipling Collection (Library of Congress). Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936.
*"Freddy plays football" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2001.
*"Freddy goes to Florida". by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York, A.A. Knopf, 1949.
*"Freddy goes to the North Pole" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2001.
*"Honk, the moose" by Phil Stong; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1935.
*"Freddy and the dragon" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2000.
*"With love and irony" by Yutang Lin; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : J. Day Co., [©1940]
*"Freddy the magician" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2002.
*"The fables of Aesop"; by Aesop; Joseph Jacobs; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York, Macmillan [©1950]
*"Freddy the pilot" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 1999, ©1980.
*"Silver Chief, dog of the north", by Jack O'Brien Publisher: Philadelphia, J.C. Winston Co. [1933]
*"Li Lun, lad of courage" by Carolyn Treffinger; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Abingdon Press, ©1947.
*"You can write Chinese", by Kurt Wiese Publisher: New York, Viking Press, 1945.
*"Twenty-two bears". by Claire Huchet Bishop; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York, Viking Press [1964]
*"Happy Easter". by Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York, Viking Press, 1952.
*"Pecos Bill and Lightning", by Leigh Peck; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940.
*"Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", by Jules Verne; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: Cleveland and New York, World Pub. Co. [©1946]
*"Freddy and the perilous adventure" by Walter R Brooks; Kurt Wiese. Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986, ©1942.
*"Yen-Foh A Chinese Boy" adapted from the Chinese by Ethel J Eldridge printed by Junior Press Books Albert Whitman & Co Chicago 1939.

References

External links

* [http://www.askart.com/askart/w/kurt_wiese/kurt_wiese.aspx AskArt.com]
* [http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv40030 Guide to the Kurt Wiese papers at the University of Oregon]