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Leo Lionni
Throughout his life, Leo Lionni (1910–1999) moved between New York City and his beloved Italy. An art director on Madison Avenue as well as an accomplished painter, sculptor, and printer, he published his first picture book, Little Blue and Little Yellow (1959), at age 49. Lionni’s 40 books for children demonstrate a consistent aesthetic of elegant design and draftsmanship. He is best known for his animal fables in which characters, rendered in paper collage and color pencil, collaborate to solve problems or teach gentle lessons. Lionni was a four-time Caldecott Honor winner for Inch by Inch (1960), Swimmy (1963), Frederick (1967), and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse (1969). He championed many young illustrators, including Eric Carle, who considered Lionni a mentor and lifelong friend. Groundbreaking modernist designer and children’s book illustrator who emerged as one of the international design community's most influential pathfinders and bridge-builders. Idealistic and globally minded, he viewed pithy, smart, deceptively simple graphic design as a worthy contribution to the post-war effort, emphasizing democratic values and establishing a visual language to unite people across generations and cultures. During his prolific career, Lionni expressed his creative vision by pursuing distinct but interrelated artistic domains, including avant-garde graphic design and advertising, progressive picture books for children, and personal works exploring the mediums of printmaking, photography, drawing, painting, & sculpture. The Early Years Born in Amsterdam on May 5, 1910, Leo Leonni was a beloved son and nephew in a family that appreciated art. The only child of Louis Lionni, an oil company accountant of Jewish descent, and Elizabeth Grussouw Lionni, a Christian and an opera singer, Lionni loved to draw and set his sig Here, sumptuously illustrated, is a superbly written account of a remarkable life--a life spent divided between Europe and America, between art and commerce--by the famous artist, art director, and children's book author Leo Lionni. Copyright ©tiedame.pages.dev 2025
The Lionni family has gifted nearly 80 original artworks to The Carle. The Museum presented the 2003 exhibition Leo Lionni: A Passion for Creativit •
Leo Lionni
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Between Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni
Born in Holland, half Jewish, raised in Amsterdam, Brussels, Genoa, Philadelphia--Lionni is a man of many languages and cultures but no real home. His story is one of a constant search, a search that takes him from an ideal early childhood to a strict education in Italy that proved largely irrelevant to his future, and then to exile from Fascist Italy in America; from being a highly political aspiring artist to becoming a highly successful advertising director (he invented the famous "Never underestimate the power of a woman" campaign) and a powerful force in the world of graphics as the art director of Fortune magazine; from life in the affluent commuter world of Connecticut to a return to Italy and the life of an artist. After all this--a full life by any account--he finds yet another successful v