A Brief Introduction to Alexander and the Clockwork Mouse

Leo Lionni (Leo Lionni,1910.5.5-1999.11),191. Because his home is near the art museum and his uncles are architects, painters and art collectors, he has been immersed in a rich artistic atmosphere since he was a child. /kloc-moved to America and Italy with his family since he was 0/3 years old. 1935 received a doctorate in economics. 1945, there was an anti-semitic wave in Europe, and they were forced to flee the United States with their families.

Leonie is a brilliant and unconstrained artistic genius, proficient in painting, sculpture, graphic design, printing, ceramics, photography and so on. 10 years as the design director of American Fortune magazine. During this period, he held solo exhibitions and design exhibitions in Europe and America for many times, and served as the president of the American Graphic Arts Society and the president of the 1953 international design conference. 1955 was awarded the best advertising production designer by the graphic arts association of America, and 1956 was awarded the gold medal by the architectural alliance. When 1984 won the award of the American Graphic Arts Association, the winners commented on him in this way: he deeply influenced at least three generations through his artistic creation, design creation, leadership and talent cultivation in the design field, and created picture books for children, and humanism and rationalism permeated from beginning to end.

Although Leonie was 49 years old when he started to create picture books, he started a new era of picture books. The New York Times once gave him such an evaluation at the expense of praise: "If picture books are a new visual art of our time, then Leo Leoni is the master of this style."

His picture books won numerous awards, including Inch by Inch (1960), Little Black Fish (Swimmy, 1963), Alfred the vole (1967) and Alex the Clockwork Mouse. 1969) won the Cadillac Award of the United States four times in 196 1, 1964, 1968 and 1970 respectively.

1999 10, the master of picture books known as "color magician", died in Italy at the age of 89.