Petra Probst, illustrations • visual art

Biography

She is a well-known German free-lance illustrator. She organizes multicultural art & dance projects for children and teachers. She lives and works in Turin and in Munich.

She has been working for some of Germany’s most prestigious publishing houses illustrating over 100 books.

Her work has been edited in many other countries: Italy, Great Britain, Spain, France, China, Korea, etc...

clients selection:

Annette Betz, Arena Verlag, arsEdition, Artebambini, Blu Edizioni, cbj/ Random House, Cornelsen Schulbuch, EGA editore/LIBERA, Goethe Institut, Grätz Verlag, HABA games, hopefulmonster editore, Jako’o, Notes edizioni, Loewes Verlag, Ravensburger Buchverlag, Sinnos Editrice, Thienemann Verlag.

Training

She is trained in dance and movement therapy and in art therapy techniques with a special attention to the expressive methods that take care of children’s psycosocial, cognitive and emotional development.

In this field she is working together with pedagogues, psycologists and social workers on special childhood education programmes.