ARTIST
German Aczel is an Argentinian artist who now lives in Munich, Germany. After winning prizes in his native Buenos Aires, he began working for Argentina’s most important newspaper La Nación, moving on to the country’s biggest sports magazine, El Gráfico. He was 20 when he had his first exhibition and he has represented Argentina in many overseas exhibitions.
After living and working in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, for Jornal do Brasil, he moved at the age of 26 to Germany, Munich, where he worked among others for Bravo Sport, FourFourTwo and Bundesliga.
Aczel is Author of numerous books, several of them dedicated to soccer. Like the book World Cup 1930-2022 (the new version of the bestseller 2014), The Greatest Goals of all Time and More or his recent published artwork dedicated to the German National Team: «Oooh, wie ist das schön!»
His football drawings are part of the FIFA World Football Museum ( Zurich, Switzerland ), who also invited him to be the artist in residence for the month of the World Cup 2018.
For the Asian Cup 2019 in the UAE, Abu Dhabi Media invited him to draw daily for the Al-Ittihad Emirati newspaper.
During World Cup 2022: Big exposition of the greatest World Cup goals ever in Vaduzer Saal, in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
He also supports Unicef and Homeless World Cup.
Since 2022 Club Atlético Boca Juniors Ambassador in Munich, Germany.
Currently he is promoting for the EURO 2024 the new book «Oooh, wie ist das schön!» and working on new projects coming out soon…
SOME OF MY ARTWORKS
NEW BOOKS
THE GREATEST GOALS OF ALL TIME AND MORE
AND
OOOH, WIE IST DAS SCHÖN!
GOALS ILLUSTRATED
LIONEL MESSI
VS REAL MADRID 2011, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
ROBERTO CARLOS
VS FRANCE 1997, TOURNOI DE FRANCE
CRISTIANO RONALDO
VS JUVENTUS 2018, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
MARIO GÖTZE
VS ARGENTINA 2014, WORLD CUP
NEYMAR
VS FLAMENGO 2011, CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO
RONALDINHO
VS CHELSEA FC 2005, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
THE WORLD CUP BOOK
THE BOOK AROUND THE WORLD
2010: PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN IN ITALY
2014: BESTSELLER IN GERMANY
2018/22 ALSO IN CHINA
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