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Philipp Keel is a Swiss artist and writer based in Zurich, Switzerland and Los Angeles, California. Keel achieved critical and popular acclaim after the best-selling All About Me, a book series with over three million copies in print. Central to his work are caricature, the beauty of details, light, and the complexity of the human mind. Noted for pioneering the Imbue Print technique, Keel received recognition in the art world with a solo show at Art Basel in 2001. Two years later, Steidl Publishing released Color, the most comprehensive collection of his editions. Keel draws inspiration from Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert, palm trees, the short stories of Carson McCullers, David Hockney's ''Paper Pools'', rabbits, and Coca-Cola in the classic 237 ml glass bottle. ==Early years== Philipp Keel was born and grew up in Zurich, Switzerland. His father is Daniel Keel, founder of Diogenes Verlag, and his mother, Anna Keel, is a painter and sculptor. Frequent guests in the Keel household included Patricia Highsmith, Maurice Sendak and Federico Fellini, whom Philipp delighted in watching direct movies at Cinecittà in Rome. At age nine, while in the hospital recovering from a near-fatal car accident, Keel decided he would become an artist and film director. The younger of two sons, Keel, though lively and curious at home,〔Die Welt, Hamburg, April 29, 2000, Page 2 ( Fast alles über P. Wie der Verlegersohn Philipp Keel mit Fragenkatalogen Karriere machte )〕 was shy and inattentive at school. As early as kindergarten, he found himself more captivated with toys and books than with games or lessons. Diane Arbus’ photographs featured frequently in his imagination. When Keel was fourteen years old, he literally escaped from boarding school in Gruyère and used his birthday money to take a train to Paris. It was during this sojourn that he discovered a passion for photographing people and mysterious details, using a camera he found in a park. At the same time, Keel began to make drawings and caricatures inspired by the works of Tomi Ungerer, Saul Steinberg and Sempé. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philipp Keel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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