Susan Einzig
| Susan Einzig | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Suzanne Henriette Einzig 16 November 1922 Dahlem, Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 25 December 2009 (aged 87) Chelsea, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Central School of Art and Design |
| Known for | Book illustration |
| Notable work | Tom's Midnight Garden, 1958 |
Susan Einzig (1922—2009) was a British illustrator, painter, printmaker and art teacher. She is best known for illustrating the children's book Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce.
Einzig was born Suzanne Henriette Einzig on 16 November 1922 in Dahlem, Berlin, into an affluent Jewish family. Her father, the managing director of a clothing company, encouraged her artistic talents, and at the age of 15 she began studying art at the Breuer School of Design. Two years later she travelled to England on one of the last Kindertransport trains before the outbreak of the Second World War. She was joined by her brother, and later by her mother, but her father died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Living with family friends in Hampstead Garden Suburb in London, she enrolled at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she studied wood engraving under Gertrude Hermes and John Farleigh, and drawing and illustration under Bernard Meninsky, William Roberts and Maurice Kesselman. In 1942 she was conscripted to work in an aircraft factory, and later worked as a technical draughtsman for the War Office.
After the war she found work as an illustrator. In 1945 she was commissioned by Noel Carrington to illustrate a children's book, Mary Belinda and the Ten Aunts by Norah Pulling, using the technique of autolithography in which the artist draws directly on the printing surface, using a separate plate for each of six colours. Other books she illustrated include Sappho: a Picture of Life in Paris by Alphonse Daudet (1954), Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958), which won the 1959 Carnegie Medal (see figure), and The Bastables by E. Nesbit (1966), a new edition. She also worked for magazines like Lilliput, Picture Post and House and Garden, and was a regular illustrator for the Radio Times from about 1948.
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