The fans of the Munich illustrator Uli Oesterle had to wait three years for the second part of his “Father’s Milk” series. Now the book (Carlsen) with the subtitle “Under the Surface” has been published. It tells of Rufus Himmelstoss’s social decline, his life on the streets in Munich in the 1970s, but also of complicated family ties. In the last few months before printing, Oesterle worked 16 hours a day on it and had to cancel all orders as an illustrator. A hellish trip for a freelance artist. He now says he feels like a “proud father” and speaks of a “stage victory.” Another final volume of the story is planned. In the shared studio “Buntschwarz” on Theresienwiese, his well-known hidden object pictures, which are also available as puzzles, hang on the walls. Oesterle, 57, is catching up on postponed orders these weeks, and yet he takes a lot of time for a conversation, makes green tea with carefully cooled water and tells the story.
“I wanted to understand what a man should be like” – Munich
