 OLIVER Schopf DER STANDARD Vienna, AUSTRIA NEBELSPALTER Horn, SWITZERLAND | |
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Born in Kitzbuehel, Austria, in 1960, Oliver Schopf has not become a Herminator on white snow, but a Drawminator on white paper. After studies in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts he started as a free-lancer cartoonist for several national and international newspapers, magazins and satirical magazins. In 1988 he joined the new-founded Austrian daily news-paper Der Standard as an editorial cartoonist and since then he is.Besides his political cartoons his live-drawn(!!) reports from major trials in Austria became very famous as well as his psychological portraits. His work is syndically represented by the Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate, New York and appears in the main newspapers all over the world. As an illustrator he contributed to several books concerning sports, history and economy. Now he works on a new edition for children of Cervantes' Don Quixote, which will be published in fall 1999. He has taken part in uncountable exhibitions all over the world and has got several honorable mentions. Oliver Schopf lives in Vienna, Austria. oliver.schopf@derStandard.at | |
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