Oskar Herrfurth (5 February 1862 – 1934) was a German painter and illustrator.

Life

Herrfurth was born in

Merseburg Merseburg () is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a diocese ...

Province of Saxony The Province of Saxony (german: link=no, Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944. Its capital was Magdeburg. It was formed by the merge ...

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. He received his education at the art school in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

, where he lived for many years, later then in

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. He created

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...

s as well as fairy tale pictures and worked as

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

. He illustrated, among other things, the tall tales of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, works by

Karl May Karl Friedrich May ( , ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his 19th century novels of fictitious travels and adventures, set in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main pro ...

as well as

Grimms' Fairy Tales ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', originally known as the ''Children's and Household Tales'' (german: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, lead=yes, ), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob Grimm, Ja ...

and fairy tales 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 ...

and

Ludwig Bechstein Ludwig Bechstein (24 November 1801 – 14 May 1860) was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales. He was born in Weimar, the illegitimate child of Johanna Carolina Dorothea Bechstein and Hubert Dupontreau, a French emigrant who disappe ...

Work

Illustrator of the following postcard series, all published by Uvachrom: * '' Münchhausen'', 2 six-part series * '' Eulenspiegel'', six-part series * '' Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten'' (Grimm brothers), six-part series * '' Der kleine Däumling'' (Bechstein), six-part series * '' Der Schweinehirt'' (Andersen), six-part series, 1920 * '' Die sieben Raben'' (Grimm brothers), six-part series * '' Der Rattenfänger von Hameln'', six-part series * ''Siebenschön'' (Bechstein), six-part series * '' Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein'' (Grimm brothers), six-part series * '' Marienkind'' (Grimm brothers), six-part series * '' Das Schlaraffenland'', six-part series * '' Die Heinzelmännchen'', six-part series Illustrated books: * ' by

. With one color cover image and 16 tone print images. 4th edition. Stuttgart among others: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1904). * Karl May. ''Der Ölprinz''. With 16 colour print images. 5th and last edition. Stuttgart among others: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1909).

Literature

* Hans Ries: ''Illustration und Illustratoren des Kinder- und Jugendbuchs im deutschsprachigen Raum 1871–1914.''''Illustration und Illustratoren des Kinder- und Jugendbuchs im deutschsprachigen Raum, 1871-1914 : das Bildangebot der Wilhelminischen Zeit, Geschichte und Aesthetik der Original- und Drucktechniken : internat. Lexikon der Illustratoren, Bibliographie ihrer Arbeiten''
on WorldCat Osnabrück, im Verlag Wenner 1992. .

References

External links

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Postcard Illustrations by Oskar Herrfurthth-century

Münchhausens Abenteuer in Bildern von Oskar Herrfurth
Serie I
Münchhausens Abenteuer in Bildern von Oskar Herrfurth
Serie II
Der Rattenfänger von Hameln, Postkartenserie von Oskar Herrfurth

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, Postkartenserie von Oskar Herrfurth

Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein, Postkartenserie von Oskar Herrfurth

Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland, Postkartenserie von Oskar Herrfurth

Das Marienkind, Postkartenserie von Oskar Herrfurth
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herrfurth, Oskar 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German illustrators 1862 births 1934 deaths People from Merseburg 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists People from the Kingdom of Prussia