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A new edition of the popular children’s classic Sleep Well, Little Bear by Quint Buchholz (recipient i.a. of the New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Award) has appeared as part of the ZEIT Picture Book Edition “My Year in Picture Books” on March 10, 2016.

This lovingly crafted, colorful book collection for children, featuring 12 award-winning well-known and new picture books, will help to guide little readers through the year. From the different seasons to special holidays like Easter and Christmas, from birthdays to more serious events like death – the ZEIT editorial staff have picked one of the most beautiful picture books to go with each important topic that gives children a sense of time.

In this collection, the magical bedtime story Sleep Well, Little Bear will appear alongside popular books such as e.g. the “Spring Wimmelbook” by Rotraut Susanne Berner or “Santa’s Littlest Helper” by Anu Stohner and Henrike Wilson.

“Buchholz’s luminous, delicate drawings perfectly convey the excitement left over from an ordinary day that would be too good to end, if it weren’t for the promise of tomorrow.” (Sandy MacDonald, Reviews)

“In both its language and its art, this nighttime dreamscape offers images sweet and soothing.” (Publishers Weekly)

“a wonderful book, with truly exceptional illustrations” (Amazon customer)

“This picture book is captivating from the opening lines, and the sumptuous artwork is full of new discoveries with each subsequent reading. The narrative has a gentle rhythm and phrasing that captures how a young soul sees the world. Few picture books deliver such a magical experience.” (Amazon customer)

Quint Buchholz
“Schlaf gut, kleiner Bär”
in the ZEIT picture book edition “My year in picture books”
12 picture books in a box
Hardcover 32 pages
€ 99,95 (D)

The exhibition of new illustrations from “The Guest Cat”, “The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow”, as well as new independent works has so far been well-attended – and will still be open until January 16, 2016.

From empathetic animal portraits to ironic commentaries on the robustness of humans’ capacity of hope: the brilliant presentation of these equally expressive and detailed paintings in the Rothweiler Gallery in Karlsruhe offers a lot to eye and mind alike.

With his tried-and-tested calmness and dedication to close observation, Quint Buchholz puts himself in the shoes (or hooves, or paws…) of goats, donkeys, snails, cats, small and big people alike. Celebrating the vitality and curiosity of his characters, he also examines and closely reflects on their ways of life. Human-animal relationships and vice versa are once again his center of attention.

An exhibition for people big and small, for readers and non-readers, who enjoy beautiful paintings as much as thinking about them.

More information about the exhibition and the artist can be found online on the website of the exhibition, hosted by the Rothweiler Gallery. 

Rothweiler Gallery
Dürrbachstr. 24 // 76227 Karlsruhe

Open:
Thursday, Friday 2 – 6 p.m.
Saturday 11 a.m – 4 p.m.

On April 9, 2016, Quint Buchholz will be reading his hymn to the joy of reading, “In the Land of Books”, as a part of the annual Reading Night event in Unterhaching (Unterhachinger LeseNacht).

After the reading, which will be accompanied by projections of his pictures, he will also introduce his newest illustrated book, the novel “The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow” by Chilean author Luis Sepúlveda.

“Quint Buchholz is the painter of gentle dreams. His pictures, with their clever minimal text, tell us everything that a book can be to us: comfort, home, protection, a shield, a bed – we dream and dive through this book, happiness gently snowing down upon us until we emerge again at the end.” (Elke Heidenreich on “In the Land of Books”)

Times and Locations:

Reading 1:
April 9, 2016, 8 p.m.
at KUBIZ Kulturzentrum, kleiner Saal, Jahnstraße 1, 82008 Unterhaching

Reading 2:
April 9, 2016, 9 p.m.
at the Community Library (Gemeindebücherei Unterhaching), Rathausplatz 11, 82008 Unterhaching

The “Ku(h)rios” exhibition, the last one curated by the now departing long-time director of the Ottobrunn Arts Association (Kunstverein Ottobrunn), Doris Laves-Wegat, dedicates itself to the cow, which has been the emblem of TREFFPUNKT KUNST from the beginning.

In Quint Buchholz’s work, the many-faceted relationships between man and animal have played a special role for many years. His animal paintings are just as much empathetic potraits as they are nuanced commentaries on their significance in our lives and our culture. This exhibition will feature five of Quint Buchholz’s most beautiful cow pictures, as well as his object box “My attempt to imagine two million cows”.

The exhibition will be open to the public beginning January 13, 2016, and will run until February 6, 2016.

More information about the exhibition can be found on the Ottobrunn Arts Association’s website.

Gallery TREFFPUNKT KUNST!
Rathausstr. 5 // 85521 Ottobrunn

Opening hours:
Wed. – Fri. 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Sat. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

On October 8, 2016, the Gallery Knauss Werkraum near Gärtnerplatz will open its doors for an extraordinary exhibition: A meeting of two masters of atmospherically dense, bewitching pictorial narration that is stripped down to the essentials.

New works by Quint Buchholz will enter into a dialogue with the meditative, large-format photographs that Yussof (Jürgen) Knauss has brought back from several journeys through Burma/Myanmar and collected in his magnificent book Im Fluss der Langsamkeit (In the Flow of Slowness).

Opening hours:

Oct. 8–27, 2016
Thu. and Sat. 1p.m.–8 p.m.

The Fischer publishing house has released Luis Sepúlveda’s wonderfully different animal story in German on September 24, 2015.

A young, inquisitive snail emerges from his metaphorical shell in Dandelion Land and embarks on a journey through the big world. He sets out to learn the reason why he is so slow, and to make himself a name – since all things have proper names except snails! His friendship with Memory the turtle soon teaches him the value of friendship, diversity and solidarity, and finally rewards him for his courage and perseverance.

A tribute to thoughtfulness, to children’s curiosity and the surprising perspectives in life that will be an inspiration to both growing and grown-up readers – illustrated by Quint Buchholz.

“This is what special books look like… unique works of art in the children’s book sector.”
Manuela Haselberger, in Eselsohr, December 4, 2015

For more information about the book and a look at a longer excerpt, visit Fischer’s website.

Luis Sepúlveda
“Der langsame Weg zum Glück – Ein Schneckenabenteuer” (Original title: Historia de un caracol que descubrió la importancia de la lentitud)
Hardcover 80 pages
€ 14,99 (D)
ISBN 978-3-7373-5161-4

Also published as an audio book by Argon Hörbuchverlag.
€ 14,95 (D)
ISBN 978-3-8398-4708-4

Takashi Hiraides’ novel “A Guest Cat” will be published on 7th March 2015 by Insel Verlag. Over the last year since publication it has become a surprise bestseller in the USA as well as in England.

The novel is translated from Japanese by Ursula Gräfe, the illustrations and cover design are by Quint Buchholz.

There is more about the book and a detailed extract from it on the Insel Verlag site.

Takashi Hiraide
“A Guest Cat”
Hardcover 133 pages
€ 14,00 (D)
ISBN: 978-3-458-17626-8

Also published as an audio book by Steinbach Sprechende Bücher.
€ 17,99 (D)
ISBN  978-3-86974-213-7

The Canon of Literature is an incredible and attractive major project that feeds enthusiasm for books in unusual ways and tells us about many well-loved books.

It was initiated, got under way and designed by the bookseller Thomas Schmitz and designer Dirk Uhlenbrock from Essen Werden, and brought into being and filled with life by 20 booksellers and 2000 readers from 20 places in Germany. In the 21st volume 100 people whose lives are involved with books such as publishers, authors, illustrators and booksellers are given one page each to tell us about their favourite book.

Anyone who would like to know more, to see the splendid colourful clothcover – well, virtually, at least, – or immediately order the whole series or volume 21 can find all further information here.

For the text by Quint Buchholz – on an exhibition catalogue of the Canadian painter Alex Colville – see here.

Twenty-nine draughtsmen and women collaborating on a book project initiated and edited by Klaus Humann. With a preface by Andreas Platthaus (FAZ). The pictures in it were done within a few days of each other in January 2015, just a short time after the Paris attack.

Aladin Verlag is publishing the book on 12th February 2015, all profits to go to the PEN “Writers in Prison” campaign.

The contributors are: ATAK, Jutta Bauer, Larissa Bertonasco, Quint Buchholz, Flix, Bob Graham, Nikolaus Heidelbach, David Hughes, Janosch, Joelle Jolivet, Ulf K., Regina Kehn, Reinhard Kleist, Ole Könnecke, Isabel Kreitz, Marine Ludin, Ulli Lust, Hildegard Müller, Thomas M. Müller, Christoph Niemann, Moni Port, Chris Riddell, Axel Scheffler, Peter Sís, Ralph Steadman, Philip Wächter, David Wiesner, Sabine Wilharm and Barbara Yelin.

You can click to see Quint Bucholz’s picture below, another picture on the theme, but not in the book, is here.

There is more about the book on the Aladin Verlag website.

“Zeichner verteidigen die Meinungsfreiheit”
(Draughsmen in Defence of Freedom of Expression)
Klaus Humann (Editor)
Hardcover 48 pages
€ 12,90 (Germany)
ISBN: 978-3-8489-2070-9

“A consideration of the pictures of the Munich artist Quint Buchholz makes you forget the time, calm down, begin to marvel and to question, to be spellbound by a magic that most of us have let slip through our fingers because of the hectic pace at which the world works.”

Julia Kortenjann wrote this in a wonderful and detailed appreciation of the work, pictures and books of Quint Buchholz on the website of the Borromäusverein (The Borromeo Society).