Willi Glasauer

Willi Glasauer, born in 1938 in Bohemia, then Czechoslovakia, studied at the Mainz School of Art. He subsequently worked as a packaging designer for a Swedish company and later as a layout artist and art director at a Hamburg publishing house. At the age of 30, he became a freelance illustrator, working for German and French publishers, magazines, and television. His main field was book illustration. Among the authors whose works he illustrated were Heinrich von Kleist, Daniil Charms, Hans Fallada, Edgar Allan Poe, and Hans Christian Andersen.