Fluchtpunkt Europa

How did Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019) become the artist he was? What drove this “Picasso of the caricature” to create an oeuvre of more than 40,000 works in the course of his life? The author Agata Hofrichter analyses Ungerer's eventful biography and his work and sheds light on the search for identity of a legendary artist and author who was known to the general public for his unadapted children's books, amongst other things. Well-founded and empathetic, she follows the path of a person who, with the early death of his father, the Second World War and a double linguistic re-education, lived through several blows of fate and found a purpose in his artistic and political commitment.