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Biographie Peter Gaymann

Peter Gaymann, born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1950, is one of the most successful and popular cartoonists in Germany. After completing his studies (social pedagogy) in his hometown, he decided to pursue his artistic passion and in 1976 became self-employed as a humorous draughtsman. In 2019, the 100th book by and with Peter Gaymann was published, many of his publications became bestsellers. His trademark are the chickens, which are known to the general public with the abbreviation P.GAY on postcards, calendars, posters and etchings.

Publications and series in TAZ, Zeit Magazin, BUNTE, GONG and many other magazines and newspapers open up Peter Gaymann's cartoons to a large audience. For the women's magazine "Brigitte" he brought the challenges in the coexistence of man and woman to the point for 30 years since 1990 in the series "The Couple Problems".

2014, Peter Gaymann was given the honour of designing two stamps for Deutsche Post after Janosch and Loriot with a circulation of 70 million at Easter time.

With the DEMENSCH campaign, which he launched in 2013 with the gerontologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Klie, Peter Gaymann dedicates himself with sensitivity to the topic of dementia. Every year since then, a postal species calendar with new motifs has been published, which also tour the country in various exhibitions. As an official ambassador of the Bundesverband Kinderhospiz e.V., he has been committed to helping seriously ill children for many years.

Peter Gaymann has two big children and three small grandchildren and lives with his wife Viktoria Steinbiß-Gaymann on Lake Starnberg in a converted inn. In addition to his family, he loves Italy, especially Rome, where he lived for five years. Gaymann's works are shown as solo and thematic exhibitions at home and abroad in galleries and museums: Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover, Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem in Troisdorf, Arp Museum Remagen, Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Buchheim Museum Bernried u.a.