Video: On the painful: works by a German artist dedicated to depression
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A laconic author's style and deep content - these are, perhaps, the pillars on which a good illustration stands. Daniel Stolle was able to convey the feelings of a depressed person in just four drawings.
German-born Stolle lives and works in Finland. This young artist has worked for such giants as: "The New York Times", "The New Yorker", "Washington Post", "DIE ZEIT", "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", "The Times", "Scientific American" and for many others. His first drawing was published in The New York Times. When asked how he did it, the author just laughs it off and calls himself lucky.
Stolle's drawings are the very case when the idea wins the style, although Daniel's drawings do not lose in execution. This is definitely a powerful piece of work. Not so long ago, the Stern magazine published four illustrations by Stolle, in which the author managed to masterfully convey some aspects of the depression that has so annoyed society lately.
The artist's career began relatively recently - Stolle came to illustration only in 2007. Prior to that, he studied industrial design in Germany and Finland, but after graduating from university in 2006, he suddenly realized that he gravitates most towards illustration. However, the departure from design in favor of illustration is quite understandable: Stolle grew up in East Germany, was brought up on well-illustrated German and Czech books. He still feels the influence of Werner Klemke, Dobroslav Fall and Eberhard Binder. It never ceases to amaze him how these most talented people, having at their disposal a very meager inventory and paper of dubious quality, could do such grandiose things.
In addition to the illustrations themselves, Stolle enthusiastically comes up with book covers, draws stamps, and creates animated films. Stolle never regretted that he made drawing the main occupation of his life: "I am satisfied with my decision," says the artist, "and am grateful that I can earn a living with the craft that I like."
Stolle's colleague in the shop, the young Italian illustrator Alessandro Gottardo also boasts of working with major publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. “My paintings are, first of all, messages, messages through which I communicate with the viewer,” says Alessandro. Daniel Stolle could have signed these words as well.
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