Oskar Herrfurth

Munchausen

The Bremen Town Musicians

Oskar Herrfurth (born February 5, 1862 in Merseburg , † 1934 ) was a German painter and illustrator.

Life

He received his training at the art school in Weimar , he lived in Weimar for many years, and later in Hamburg . He painted genre pictures as well as fairy tale pictures and worked as an illustrator . He illustrated a. a. the tales of lies by Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen , works by Karl May and Grimm's fairy tales and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Ludwig Bechstein .

Works (selection)

Illustrator of the following postcard series, all of which were published by Uvachrom:

• Münchhausen , 2 six-part series
• Eulenspiegel , six parts
• The Bremen Town Musicians (Brothers Grimm), six-part
• Little Tom Thumb (Bechstein), six-part
• The Swineherd (Andersen), six-part, 1920
• The seven ravens (Brothers Grimm), six parts
• The Pied Piper of Hameln , six-part
• Siebenschön (Bechstein), six-part
• The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats (Brothers Grimm), six-part
• Marienkind (Brothers Grimm), six-part
• The land of milk and honey , six-part
• The Heinzelmännchen , six-part

Illustrated books:

• The crimson Methuselah . From Karl May . With a colored cover picture and 16 sound print images. 4th edition. Stuttgart u. a .: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1904).
• Karl May . The oil prince . With 16 color print images. 5th (last) edition. Stuttgart u. a .: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1909).

literature

• Hans Ries: Illustration and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914. Osnabrück, published by Wenner 1992. ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .

Web links

Commons : Oskar Herrfurth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Münchhausen's Adventure in Pictures by Oskar Herrfurth Series I
• Münchhausen's Adventure in Pictures by Oskar Herrfurth Series II
• The Pied Piper of Hameln, series of postcards by Oskar Herrfurth
• The Bremen Town Musicians, postcard series by Oskar Herrfurth
• The wolf and the seven little goats, postcard series by Oskar Herrfurth
• The fairy tale of the land of plenty, postcard series by Oskar Herrfurth
• The Marienkind, postcard series by Oskar Herrfurth