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 ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' is a children's fantasy novel by Philippa Pearce. It was first published in 1958 by Oxford University Press with illustrations by Susan Einzig. It has been reissued in print many times and also adapted for radio, tele ...

'' by

Philippa Pearce Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Best known of them is the time-slip novel ''Tom's Midnight Garden'', which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as ...

Biography

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.

Julia Eccleshare Julia Eccleshare MBE (born 1951) is a British journalist and writer on the subject of children's books. She has been Children's Books editor for ''The Guardian'' newspaper for more than ten years, at least from 2000. She is also an editorial con ...

, "Einzig, Susan Henrietta (1922–2009), illustrator", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, January 2013
online edition
Retrieved 15 February 2015 . Two years later she travelled to England on one of the last

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trains before the outbreak of the Second World War.Martin Salisbury
"Susan Einzig obituary"
''The Guardian'', 5 January 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2015. She was joined by her brother, and later by her mother, but her father died in

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. Living with family friends in

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in London, she enrolled at the

Central School of Arts and Crafts The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Cr ...

, where she studied wood engraving under

Gertrude Hermes Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes (18 August 1901 – 9 May 1983) was a British wood-engraver and sculptor. Hermes was a member of the English Wood Engraving Society (1925–31) and exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Academy and ...

and

John Farleigh John Farleigh (16 June 1900 – 30 March 1965), also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations of George Bernard Shaw's work '' The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for G ...

, and drawing and illustration under

Bernard Meninsky Bernard Meninsky (25 July 1891–12 February 1950) was a painter of figures and landscapes in oils, watercolour and gouache, a draughtsman and a teacher.. Biography Early life and education Meninsky was born in Konotop, Ukraine, where his fathe ...

, 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

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. After the war she found work as an illustrator. In 1945 she was commissioned by

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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'', ''

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'' and '' House and Garden'', and was a regular illustrator for the ''

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'' from about 1948. To supplement her income she worked part-time as a tutor at the

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, where her students included

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and Terry Scales, as well as ex-servicemen, including the musicians

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and

Wally Fawkes Walter Ernest Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81. Early hi ...

. Among her colleagues were the painter and illustrator John Minton, who was an important influence on her work, and

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. From 1959 until 1988 she was a lecturer, later a senior lecturer, at Chelsea School of Art and Design, where her students included the illustrators

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and

Emma Chichester Clark Emma Chichester Clark (born 15 October 1955) is a British children's book illustrator and author. She has published over 60 books and is best known for her series of picture books about a child's toy called Blue Kangaroo.Joanna CareyCroc on ice ( ...

and the actor

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. She continued to work as an illustrator and a fine artist. Her prints were exhibited with the Artichocke Print Workshop, and her paintings at the

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, the

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, the

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and elsewhere in the UK and abroad.Artists in Britain since 1945: Chapter E
Goldmark Gallery, 2012, p. 23. In her later years she lived in

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, London, and died of heart failure at the

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, on 25 December 2009. She was unmarried and had two children.

Books illustrated

*Norah Pulling, ''Mary Belinda and the Ten Aunts'', 1945 *Norah Pulling, ''Miss Richard's Mouse'', 1946 *

Eduard Mörike Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 18044 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by ...

, ''Mozart on the Way to Prague'', 1946 *

Rex Warner Rex Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer, and translator. He is now probably best remembered for ''The Aerodrome'' (1941).Chris Hopkins, ''English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History'' Continuum Inte ...

, ''The Vengeance of the Gods'', Macgibbon & Kee, 1954 *

Alphonse Daudet Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet. Early life Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ...

, ''Sappho: a Picture of Life in Paris'', The Folio Society, 1954 *Valerie Hastings, ''Jo and the Skiffle Group'', Max Parrish & Co, 1958 *

, ''

'', Oxford University Press, 1958 *

Hester Burton Hester Burton (6 December 1913 – 17 September 2000) was an English writer, mainly of historical fiction for children and young adults. She received the Carnegie Medal for her 1963 novel '' Time of Trial,'' which like many of her books was il ...

, ''Her First Ball'', Oxford University Press, 1959 *

Gillian Avery Gillian Elise Avery (30 September 1926 – 31 January 2016) was a British children's novelist, and a historian of childhood education and children's literature. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972, for ''A Likely Lad.'' It ...

, ''In the Window Seat: A Collection of Victorian Stories'', Oxford University Press, 1960 *Margaret Love, '' An Explorer for an Aunt '', Follett Publishing Company, 1960 * Eleanor Spence, ''Lillipilly Hill'', Oxford University Press, 1960 *Eleanor Spence, ''The Green Laurel'', Oxford University Press, 1963 *

Elizabeth Poston Elizabeth Poston (24 October 1905 – 18 March 1987) was an English composer, pianist and writer. Early life and career Poston was born in Highfield House in Pin Green, which is now the site of Hampson Park in Stevenage. In 1914, she moved ...

, ''The Children's Songbook'', 1961 *

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...

, ''

Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first ...

'', abridged by E. M. Atwood, Longmans, 1962 *

Jane Gaskell Jane Gaskell (born July 7, 1941 in Lancaster, EnglandSharon Yntema, ''More Than 100: Women Science Fiction Writers''. Crossing Press, 1988. (pp. 51-52).) is a British fantasy writer. She wrote her first novel, ''Strange Evil'', at age 14. It wa ...

, ''Attic Summer'', Hodder & Stoughton, 1963 *

Robert Gittings Robert William Victor Gittings CBE (1 February 1911 – 18 February 1992), was an English writer, biographer, BBC Radio producer, playwright and poet. In 1978, he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ''The Older Hardy''. Early life ...

and Jo Manton, ''The Story of John Keats'', E. P. Dutton & Co, 1963 *

Meindert DeJong Meindert De Jong, sometimes spelled de Jong, DeJong or Dejong (4 March 1906 – 16 July 1991) was a Dutch-born American writer of children's books. He won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1962 for his contributions as a chi ...

, ''The Tower by the Sea'', Lutterworth Press, 1964 *

E. Nesbit Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist a ...

, ''The Bastables'', Nonesuch Press, 1966

References

External links

Obituary
in ''

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'', 27 February 2010 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Einzig, Susan 1922 births 2009 deaths Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design English children's book illustrators English illustrators Kindertransport refugees Magazine illustrators British women illustrators German emigrants to the United Kingdom