Dirk Zimmer

Dirk "Dizi" Zimmer (2 October 1943 – 26 September 2008) was a German artist and an illustrator and writer of American children's books.

World Record in Permanent Painting took place under medical, and specifically psychiatric care, too, by doctors of the University Hospital Eppendorf.

[5][6] Under the moniker 'Dizi', Zimmer had a brief career as a painter during the German avant-garde movement and then turned to filmmaking, which he eventually dropped in the late 1970s to work as an illustrator for such American publications as Crawdaddy, The New York Times, and The New-York Magazine.

In 1990, he was one of a small group of illustrators—including Natalie Babbitt, Maurice Sendak, Marc Simont and Barbara Cooney—whose work was featured in The Big Book for Peace (Dutton, 1990), an anthology of 34 artists and writers.

So The New York Times praised the humor of this work with the adjective "tongue-in-cheek": "His pen has bite as he pictures a wonderfully wicked assortment of ornery little beings."

Goslar , near Harz Mountains , Zimmer's birthplace
Poughkeepsie, New York, where he died in urban hospital
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg , Zimmer's academic place
Second row, far left side: Dirk Zimmer (Dizi), the artist as a young man; exhibition poster by Werner Nöfer, 1967
Lower Manhattan area, where Zimmer lived at 29 John Street
John Street
Kingston's Rondout neighborhood