Hermann Vogel (16 October 1854 – 22 February 1921) was a German

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. Vogel was born in

Plauen Plauen (; Czech language, Czech: ''Plavno'') is, with around 65,000 inhabitants, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the larges ...

Kingdom of Saxony The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxon ...

, as the son of a master builder. From 1874–75 he studied at the

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Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. Vogel worked for the publishing company Braun & Schneider and was a founding member of the Deutsche Kunstgesellschaft (German art association) and contributed to Julius Lohmeyer's journal '' Die deutsche Jugend'' and the weekly periodical ''

Fliegende Blätter The ' ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Co ...

''. Vogel early followed the

Nazarene movement The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of c ...

, while his later material was in the

Biedermeier The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...

style. Illustrations by Vogel appeared in an 1881 publication of '' Auserwählte Märchen'' by

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...

, in an 1887 publication of the fairy tales of

Johann Karl August Musäus Johann Karl August Musäus (29 March 1735 – 28 October 1787) was a popular German author and one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his ''Volksmärchen der Deutschen'' (1782–1787), a collection of German fairy ...

, and in 1891 in ''Die Nibelungen'' by Gustav Schalk. From 1896–99 Vogel's works were collected into two volumes. Volumes 3 and 4 appeared in 1903 and 1908, respectively. He illustrated an edition of ''Bluebeard'' in 1887, ''The Juniper Tree'' in 1893 and of ''Hansel and Gretel'' in 1894The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, edited by Maria Tatar Vogel died in Burgstein, Krebes in Saxony.

Gallery

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Mary's Child "Mary's Child" (also "Our Lady's Child", "A Child of Saint Mary" or "The Virgin Mary's Child"; German: ''Marienkind'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in '' Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1812 (KHM 3). It is of Aarne-Thompson type ...

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One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 130. Andrew Lang included it, as "Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes", in ''The Green Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thomps ...

File:Hermann Vogel-Snow White and Rose Red.jpg, Snow White and Rose Red

References

1854 births 1921 deaths People from Plauen German illustrators People from the Kingdom of Saxony 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub