Carl Offterdinger

Portrait Offterdinger on his tombstone in the Fangelsbachfriedhof in Stuttgart

Robinson Crusoe and Friday (ca.1880)

Cover illustration for leather stocking

Illustration to Little Red Riding Hood

Carl Offterdinger (born January 8, 1829 in Stuttgart ; † January 12, 1889 there ) was a German figure and genre painter and illustrator .

Book illustrations

Offterdinger, a pupil of Heinrich von Rustige , illustrated numerous books for children and young people , fairy tales , adventure novels and picture sheets in the second half of the 19th century .

Offterdinger is particularly known for his paintings with fairytale scenes and illustrations of literary works such as The Nutcracker by ETA Hoffmann , Till Eulenspiegel , Robinson Crusoe or Gulliver's Travels . In 1874 he also illustrated the first edition of Theodor Storm's novella Pole Poppenspäler in the magazine Deutsche Jugend .

Some of his illustrations can now be seen in the Boston Harbor Museum, among other places .

Works

Illustrations for:

• Christian Friedrich August Kolb: Stuttgart picture book. For object lessons for children from 3 to 8 years of age. With illustrations by C. Offterdinger, H. Leutemann a. C. Kolb, Stuttgart, Thienemann, Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1985
• JH Campe: Robinson. A reading book for children by Joachim Heinrich Campe . With 6 color print images by C. Offterdinger and 23 text images by W. Zweigle. - Seventeenth edition - Stuttgart: Verlag von Wilhelm Effenberger 1898
• My first storybook. A collection of real children's fairy tales for the very little ones. With 24 fine color print images by Prof. C. Offterdinger and H. Leutemann. Seventh edition. Published by Wilhelm Effenberger (F. Loewes Verlag), Stuttgart. Printed by the R. Hofbuchdruckerei zu Gutenberg (Carl Grüninger), Stuttgart. Published at the end of the 19th century. Title page and cover .
• Gustav Nieritz: Gustav Wasa. - The Turks before Vienna. - A free soul. Three youth stories , Neue Ed. Düsseldorf, Bagel 1884 ,. 319 p. With 3 chromolithographs by Carl Offterdinger

Other works

• Children's frieze in the Stuttgart Liederhalle , around 1864, whereabouts unknown (the Liederhalle was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in 1955/1956).
• Ceiling painting "Ascension of Christ" in the parish church of St. Petrus and Paulus in Lauchheim , 1869/1870.
• 4 watercolors in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg.

literature

• Offterdinger, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 579 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Offterdinger  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Carl Offterdinger  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Offterdinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• hallino's dictionary of artists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustrators Offterdinger . In: abenteuerroman.info .
2. ^ Society for comic research
3. ^ History of the origin of Pole Poppenspäler , Theodor Storm Society
4. ^ Carl Ofterdinger in the Boston Harbor Museum . In: bostonharbormuseum.org . Archived from the original on September 25, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.