Exhibition Walter Trier

WALTER TRIER and the world of children's pictures

Exhibition
June 18 to July 16, 2004 in the foyer of the SLUB

Walter Trier is one of the outstanding illustrators of the first half of the 20th century. Today, his fame is probably based first and foremost on his illustrations for Erich Kästner's novels, above all Emil and the Detectives (1929). By this time, however, Trier had already established himself as a press illustrator, successful book artist and, from the time of the First World War, also as an illustrator of children's books. His children's book illustrations always model a different world than the one Trier had to experience during both wars. In it, one can orient oneself with a loss of freedom and a sense of justice, it offers clarity, warmth and friendship.

The exhibition traces Trier's life from his childhood in Prague to his death in Canada after fleeing and emigrating, and the most beautiful and interesting of his numerous children's books will be on display, testifying to the unmistakability and diversity of Trier's pictorial language.

Opening: June 18, 2004, 3 p.m. in the lecture hall (1st floor)
of the Saxon State Library,
Zellscher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden

Project sponsor:
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Central European Center for Political, Economic and Cultural Studies
TUD Dresden University of Technology
D-01062 Dresden
Tel: ++49-351-463 37865
Fax: ++49-351-46337769
eMail mez.org@mail box.tu-dresden.de
With the collaboration of: Dr. Antje Neuner-Warthorst, Freiburg

Sponsored by: Saxon State Ministry of the Interior
Design: Alexander Atanassow, Graphic Design, Dresden