Illustrator

Tanja Donner

Tanja Donner is an illustrator active from 1990 to 2009, credited on about 25 board games, notably several Catan titles.

25 Games

Biography

According to unsere Datenbank, Tanja Donner was born in 1970 in Stuttgart and later lived in Reutlingen. She trained at the Free School of Art in Stuttgart and worked as a typesetter and media designer before becoming a freelance illustrator. The unsere Datenbank biography is the source for these details; formal birthplace or nationality fields in the dataset are not fully standardized.

Career

Donner's credited period runs from 1990 to 2009, during which she provided artwork for family and hobby board games and several expansions. Our database lists 25 games with her artwork, including multiple Catan variants as well as standalone titles such as Hoity Toity (1990) and The Bucket King (2002). Her work appears frequently on games featuring trading, dice rolling and hand management mechanics.

Most Famous Games

Top credited games include Catan (1995), Catan Card Game (1996) and The Starfarers of Catan (1999). Other notable titles in the dataset are Hoity Toity (1990), The Bucket King (2002) and Elasund: The First City (2005). Several of these games have award mentions in the provided award list.

Design Style

Her illustration style is adaptable to family-oriented and thematic games; titles she worked on often involve negotiation and trading mechanics. Repeated involvement with Catan-related releases indicates established collaborations with publishers in that franchise.