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Oskar Herrfurth

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Oskar Herrfurth (5 February 1862 – 1934) was a German painter and illustrator.[1][2]

Life

Born in Merseburg, Herrfurth received his education at the art school in Weimar, where he lived for many years, later then in Hamburg. He created genre paintings as well as fairy tale pictures and worked as illustrator. He illustrated, among other things, the tall tales of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, works by Karl May as well as Grimms' Fairy Tales and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Ludwig Bechstein.

Work

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

Illustrated books:

  • Der blaurote Methusalem [de] by Karl May. 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.[4] Osnabrück, im Verlag Wenner 1992. ISBN 3-87898-329-8.

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