Peter Wienk
Dutch illustrator (1920–2010)
Peter Wienk (11 September 1920 – 16 August 2010) was a Dutch illustrator and painter.
Biography
1920-1950
From early childhood, Peter Wienk had been drawing and was allowed to take lessons from Miss A.C. Gijswijt, a close friend of the Amsterdamse Joffers (group of Dutch female artists). At the age of 14 he had to leave school to earn a living and started working as a car mechanic and chauffeur for Van Kleef (Van Cleef?). After his escape from captivity in East Germany in 1945, he started working as an illustrator for various advertising agencies and drawing studios including the Toonder Studios of Marten Toonder a famous Dutch illustrator. In 1947, he joined Reclamebureau Van Alfen (Advertising), where amongst others the Flipje character (funny fruit character of a well-known Dutch preserve manufacturer) was made by Eelco ten Harmsen van der Beek ('Harmsen van der Beek').
1950-1970: Noddy
Beek had his own art studio and accepted an assignment in 1949 to illustrate a new story of children's author Enid Blyton: Noddy. This first appeared as a strip in an English newspaper, but proved so successful that soon after the first book was published: Noddy Goes to Toyland. Due to the nimble writing pace of Enid Blyton, Beek employed an assistant, Wienk, in 1950. Initially for colouring the drawings made by Beek, later Wienk drew the Noddy characters himself as well.
Beek died in 1953, after which Wienk, Marten Toonder and a few other illustrators had rivaled to obtain the continuing contract for the Noddy books.
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