Today the new book of Hans Bacher is published, called Vision: Color and Composition for Film.
Hans Bacher played an important part in Harald Siepermann’s career and his development as an artists. In 1981 Siepermann started to study Graphic Design at the Folkwang University in Essen. There he came under the wing of Hans Bacher who was an Assistant Professor and teacher of the course Animation and Comic Illustration. Bacher saw the extraordinary talent of the young Siepermann and started to teach him outside school hours as well.
When Bacher noticed Siepermann’s enthusiasm for a duck called Alfred Jodocus Kwak, he helped him develop the comic book. Alfred J. Kwak became a big success and what started with a comic book, evolved into a television series of 52 episodes and a merchandise phenomenon.
Hans Bacher worked for many years for Steven Spielberg’s Amblimation and Walt Disney. He was Production Designer on Balto, Mulan and Brother Bear. On each of these projects he invited Harald Siepermann to work on storyboard or character design.
If you want to learn more about animation and art history, follow Hans Bacher’s amazing blog Animation Treasure: www.one1more2time3.wordpress.com.
