David Chelsea is reading:
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld
My friends Eva and Albert Warmuth just sent me this story that ran in their local paper, Goldbach-Post, which covers news in the Bavarian villages of Wargolshausen and Junkershausen. The whole family visited them in their straw-bale house last summer, and I posted some drawings from my sketchbook on the site then. This story prints a couple of those drawings, along with what looks like a biographical sketch and photo of their American visitor. It’s difficult to be sure, since I don’t understand German:
Bekannter Karikaturist malt Wargolshausen
Seine Karikaturen sind in allen großen US-Zeitungen zu finden. Die New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Press, Seattle Weekly, Chicago Tribune und Reader’s Digest drucken regelmäßig seine Bilder ab. Die Rede ist von David Chelsea, einem US-Amerikaner, den Eva Warmuth während ihres Studiums in New York in den Jahren 1989/1990 kennengelemt hatte. Im vergangenen Sommer machte der Küntstler während seiner Europareise auch in Wargolshausen Station. Es hat ibm hier ausgesprochen gut gefallen, so Eva Warmuth, Das oltene Land, das Wargolshäuser Schwimmbad, die Ruhe auf dem Land hat er gemeinsam mit seinen Kindem genossen. Der mehrfache Buchautor, hält seine Umwelt ständig zeichnend fest. Auch im Rahmen der Ausflüge, die Eva und Albert Warmuth mit Chelsea gemacht haben, wurde dies deutlich., ,,Irgendwie”, so Eva Warmuth, ,,wird das Leben in seiner Umgebung verlangsamt”. Wenngleicher mit nur wenigen Strichen ein Objekt leslhalten kann, dauert esdoch etwas länger, als eine Szene mit dem Fotoapparat einzufangen. Das Ergebnis sind dann diese Skizzen, Karikaturen und Zeichnungen, die mittelweile bei ihm unendlich viele Bucher füllen.
Here’s what Google Translate makes of it:
Well-known cartoonist draws Wargolshausen
His caricatures are found in all major U.S. newspapers. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Press, Seattle Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and Reader’s Digest print regularly from his pictures. We are talking about had kennengelemt by David Chelsea, a U.S. citizen, the Eva Warmuth while studying in New York in the years 1989/1990. Last summer, the Küntstler made during his trip to Europe in Wargolshausen station. It has fallen here ibm extremely well, says Eva Warmuth, The oltene country Wargolshäuser swimming pool, the rest of the country he has enjoyed in common with his Kindem. The multiple author keeps his environment constantly drawing. Also made in the context of the trips, the Eva and Albert Warmuth with Chelsea was this clear.,,, Somehow, “said Eva Warmuth, will slow down the life around him.” When can leslhalten Same with a few strokes of an object takes esdoch little longer than capture a scene with the camera. The results are then these sketches, cartoons and drawings that fill infinite medium while in his many books.
My son Ben is taking freshman German in high school- maybe I’ll have him look and see if he can make more sense of it.