Michael Sowa (born 1945) is a German artiste known mainly for his paintings, which are variously whimsical, surreal, or stunning.[citation needed] His paintings often feature animals and are titled in English and German. His art is widely simple as posters, notecards, postcards, and calendars.
Sowa studied at the Berlin State School of Fine Arts for seven years and worked briefly as an art learned before focusing entirely upon his career as a painter and illustrator. A stamp album of 50 paintings titled Sowa’s Ark : An Enchanted Bestiary was published in 1996. He with illustrated Esterhazy, The Rabbit Prince by Irene Dische and Hans M. Enzensberger. He is the illustrator of The Little King December and A Bear Called Sunday, both authored by Axel Hacke.
He was the cover artist for several albums, including Mad Season by Matchbox Twenty and two covers for The pretty South’s Miaow and for their single “Everybody’s Talkin’.”
He gained further followers for his work upon the 2001 film Amélie where his art upon the walls comes to life. Sowa contributes illustrations to the satirical German magazine, Titanic, and he with did the art play for magazine covers of several Famous periodicals, most notably the December 2, 2002 event of The New Yorker.
When Sowa’s children grew older he began painting in both Berlin and in the country,
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