From November 25 to 28, 2016 Quint Buchholz will offer a workshop on illustration, “Bilder, die Geschichten erzählen” (Pictures that Tell Stories), at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Kolbermoor near Rosenheim, Bavaria. Even though the course is fully booked at this point, those who are interested in participating can still ask to be put on the waiting list.
More information and course registration/waiting list:
“Earth’es tunes will start resounding if you find the magic word,” wrote the German late romantic Joseph von Eichendorff in his poem “Magic Wand” (1835). Eichendorff is speaking of the power that words have of continuously telling us something new about us and our world. Like Eichendorff, Quint Buchholz feels that some words of the German language hold a special magic and unique energy. The “painter of quiet dreams” (Elke Heidenreich) tries to bring this magic to life in his new book “Magic Words”, which will be published by Sanssouci in September 2016.
In this book, the award-winning author and illustrator brings together some of his favorite words and a selection of his paintings. On 43 double pages, one word and one picture engage in a dialogue, give each other meaning, tell entirely new and magical stories. By means of the pictures, the words start vibrating, singing, coming to life.
A book full of quiet poetry and beginnings of stories that beg to be told – now available for pre-order at many retailers.
“I want to tell stories through pictures – of encouragement and consolation, of the gift of time, of immersion and quietude and concentration. Of living and reading at one’s own speed.” – Quint Buchholz
“His breezy, pointillist illustrations are masterpieces of the atmospheric, they are pictures that retain their mystique and do not give anything away in advance.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung
The Munich-based vocal ensemble Canzone 11 presents its new concert program “Eye Music – The Renaissance of the Madrigal” on June 4 und 5, 2016. An animated picture show by Quint Buchholz will accompany the virtuous and curious vocal pieces composed by Michelangelo Rossi, Clement Jannequin, John Hoybye und Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.
More information about the concert and tickets can be found on Canzone 11’s website.
Concert times and locations:
Concert 1:
June 4, 8:00 p.m.
Stockmannsaal in the Ludwig-Thoma-Haus, Augsburger Straße 23, 85221 Dachau
Concert 2:
June 5, 7:00 p.m.
at the Concert Hall of the städtische Sing- und Musikschule, Neuberghauser Str. 11, 81675 München-Bogenhausen
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)
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.
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).
“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.
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).
A title which might just as well be used to describe the art of Quint Buchholz.
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.
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