Aiga Rasch
| Aiga Rasch | |
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"Lapathia", 2008
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| Born | 9 July 1941 Stuttgart Germany |
| Died | 24 December 2009 Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany |
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Illustrator Graphic artist Painter |
| Spouse(s) | 1. Manfred Naegele 2. |
| Parent(s) | Bodo Rasch (1903–1995) Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978) |
Aiga Rasch (9 July 1941 – 24 December 2009) was a German illustrator, graphic artist and painter.
Aiga Rasch was born in Stuttgart during the first part of the Second World War. Bodo Rasch (1903–1995), her father, was, like her younger brother, Mahmoud Bodo Rasch, an avant-garde architect. Her mother, Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978), was an internationally established fashion photographer and illustrator, and a member of the artists' group around Willi Baumeister.
She turned to painting as a small child since, during the years of austerity that followed the end of the war, there were no toys available: instead, her mother gave her a brush and palette even when the tubes of paint were too hard for the child's fingers to control with any precision. She grew up living in the family house her parents built after 1945 on the edge of the wild Schönbuch parkland to the south-west of the city, initially planning to become a writer. She enjoyed her education at the "Friedensschule" (literally: "Peace School") in Stuttgart, where school meals came from the kitchens of the American army, Stuttgart having ended up under US military control at the end of the war. She later recalled that the resulting school food was "healthier than it tasted" ("gesünder als sie schmeckt"). Shortly before taking her school leaving exams (Abitur) she entered a novel writing competition organised by the publishers, Kosmos Verlag. Her submission included her own illustrations. This gave her the opportunity to submit an embryonic "portfolio" to the publishing house, for which her mother already worked as a free-lance illustrator. For Aigo Rasch that novel writing competition marked the start of what later became a long and successful collaborative relationship with Kosmos.
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