Career
He is known as father of the Wimmelbilder-books As a child the Mitgutsch family was evacuated to Allgäu in World World War II due airstrike back bombing on Munich. Return the Munich he traineed at Graphical Academy as a lithograph which is a former profession of manual photo editing, layouting and printing.
In 1960s, Kurt Seelmann, a psychologist for children inspired him to create a special kind of picture books for children.
Opening such book at any page it shows lots of everyday scenes in a single painting across both pages on top. Rundherum in meiner Stadt (Around in my city) released in 1968 is known as the first Wimmel-book in German-speaking countries.
Mitgutsch is living in Munich, the city of his birth where he caught most of the inspirations for his paintings.
