It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for the first time-from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand-tens. The exhibits selected shed new light on Ungerer's oeuvre by making it possible to comprehend the artistic dimension of the political and stylistic lines and breaks in his oeuvre as a 'freewheeling artist'. His passion for experimenting across genres and the interplay between drawing, collage, and assemblage through which he searched for identity and humanity is thus shown in his work again and again. Developed by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg in cooperation with the Tomi Ungerer Estate and the Musee Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg, the volume brings together contributions on Tomi Ungerer's life's work by Thomas David, Belinda Grace Gardner, Aria Ungerer, and Therese Willer, with a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Harald Falckenberg.

About the Author
TOMI UNGERER (1931-2019), grew up in Alsace, France, and lived and worked in New York from 1956 to 1971 and then spent several years in Nova Scotia, Canada. Ungerer lived on a farm in southern Ireland from 1976 until his death in 2019. He is considered one of the most influential draftsmen, illustrators, and children's book authors.


Book Information
ISBN 9783775752053
Author Harald Falckenberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Hatje Cantz
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Weight(grams) 1400g