Mummelchen und Pummelchen von Sybylle von Olfers

Sibylle von Olfers ( Maria Regina Angela Hedwig Sibylla von Olfers) wurde 1881 auf Schloß Metgethen in Ostpreußen geboren. Sie erhielt bereits früh Zeichenunterricht und wurde von ihrer Tante, der Malerin und Schriftstellerin Marie von Olfers, in ihrem Talent gefördert. Mit 24 Jahren trat Sibylle von Olfers als Ordensfrau den Schwestern der heiligen Elisabeth in Königsberg bei. Diese ermöglichten ihr, ihre künstlerische Ausbildung an der Kunstakademie in Lübeck fortzusetzen. Anschließend arbeitete sie an einer katholischen Volksschule als Zeichenlehrerin. Bereits ab 1905 schrieb und veröffentlichte Sibylle von Olfers mehrere Bilderbücher – das fraglos bekannteste erschien 1906: „Etwas von den Wurzelkindern“. 1916 starb Sibylle von Olfers bereits im Alter von 35 Jahren an einem Lungenleiden. Heute gilt sie mit ihrem spielerisch-linearen Stil, der sich durch phantasievolle Rahmenelemente und kunstvoll ornamentalisierte Pflanzen auszeichnet, als eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen der Jugendstil-Buchkunst.

Sibylle von Olfers (8 May 1881 – 29 January 1916) was a German art teacher and a nun who worked as an author and illustrator of children's books. In 1906 she published her most well-known work, The Root Children (original title: Etwas von den Wurzelkindern, "Something about the children from the roots").

 Mummelchen und Pummelchen, Eine Hasengeschichte in sieben Bildern erschien 1906 zum ersten Mal bei  Gustav Weise in Stuttgart, später - 1931 - übernahm der Verlag J.F. Schreiber das Buch. Es existiert auch eine neuere englische Ausgabe des Buches unter dem Titel: The Story of the Rabbit Children.

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Fünfzig Jahre nach ihrem ersten Erscheinen verfiel man dem Irrtum, Kinder brauchten mehr „Wirklichkeitsnähe“. Die „Wurzelkinder“ und „Prinzesschen im Walde“ wurden grob umgezeichnet, die Blumen bekamen „aufgeklärte Gesichter“, die Tiere Glotzaugen wie im Comic strip. Grelle Mischfarben traten an die Stelle klarer, zarter Töne. Die hohen Ranken samt ihrem schwarzen oder moosgrünen Untergrund mußten weichen. Dadurch verloren die Bilder ihre märchenhafte Ferne und Tiefe. Aus: Blütenkinder und Taumädchen ; ZEIT Online. 

Monro S. Orr: Illustrations for The Arabian Nights' Entertainments

Monro Scott Orr (1874 - 1955) was a Scottish painter, illustrator and etcher. He was born in Irvine's High Street in October of 1874, studied at The Glasgow School of Art between 1894 and 1900. In the first half of the 20th Century, Orr produced a prodigious and varied range of book illustrations: from children's books, such as The Arabian Nights, Grimm's Fairy Tales and Treasure Islands; to the works of Robert Burns; and the works of Charlotte and Emily Bronte (Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, respectively).

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THE MAGIC CARPET

 THE PEOPLE FLED WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS

 THE SMOKE COLLECTED AND BECAME AN AFRITE

 

THERE ARRIVED A GREAT SAGE IN THE WISDOM OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

"BE RESTORED TO THY ORIGINAL FORM"

HE PLACED HER BEHIND HIM, AND SOARED UPWARD INTO THE SKY

WHEN WE BEHELD HIM WE WERE FILLED WITH DREAD AND TERROR

 THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

 THE SHEIKH ABDELSAMAD

 "GIVE ME WHAT IS MY DUE, THAT I MAY GO"

 THE CALIPH SMILED

 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

 "AS SOON AS I THROW SOME STONES OUT OF MY CHAMBER WINDOW, COME OUT"

 IMMEDIATELY A GENIE OF ENORMOUS SIZE ROSE OUT OF THE EARTH

"WHO WILL CHANGE OLD LAMPS FOR NEW ONES?"

Tales Told At Twilight illustrated by J.P. Billinghurst

Percy James Billinghurst (1871 - 1933) was a British painter, illustrator and bookplater designer. He created illustrations for A hundred fables of Æsop, A hundred fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine ca. 1900, A Hundred Anectodes of Animals.

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THE THREE RINGS

 

THE PARTING OF EARTH AND HEAVEN

THE DISOBEDIENT WOLFE

PEGASUS

THE CAVE FAIRIES

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John D. Batten: Illustrations for Indian Fairy Tales

John Dickson Batten (8 October 1860 – 5 August 1932), born in Plymouth, Devon, was an English painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker. He was an active member of the Society of Painters in Tempera with his wife Mary Batten, a gilder.


In the 1890s Batten illustrated a series of fairy tale collections edited by Joseph Jacobs, who was a member of the Folklore Society (and editor of its journal 1890–93): at least English Fairy Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, and More Celtic Fairy Tales from 1890 to 1895 and Europa's Fairy Book (1916). (The latter has also been issued as European Folk and Fairy Tales.) He also illustrated English versions of Tales from the Arabian Nights and Dante's Inferno.Batten also wrote two books of poetry and a book on animal and human flight.

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 This edition shows the full-page illustrations in a colored and in black-and-white version.The illustrations in this book were coloured by hand by
Miss Gloria Cardew.

The Lion and the Crane

How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam.

The Broken Pot

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Loving Laili

The Soothsayer's Son

Harisarman

The Charmed Ring

"We can take you, if you can only hold your tongue, and will say nothing to anybody."
"Oh! that I can do. Take me with you."
"That's right," said they. And making the tortoise bite hold of a stick, they themselves took the two ends in their teeth, and flew up into the air.

The Gold-giving Serpent

The Son of Seven Queens

Nearer and nearer he advanced, till, just as he thought to lay hold of the beautiful strange creature, it gave one mighty bound, leapt clean over the King's head, and fled towards the mountains.

"Don't you disobey orders again!" grumbled the old hag, "or next time I'll leave you alone. Now be off, before I repent of my kindness!"

Raja Rasalu.

 

The Farmer and the Money-lender

Then he blew his conch, and wished for a well to water them, and lo! there was the well, but the money-lender had two!—two beautiful new wells! This was too much for any farmer to stand; and our friend brooded over it, and brooded over it, till at last a bright idea came into his head. He seized the conch, blew it loudly, and cried out, "Oh, Ram! I wish to be blind of one eye!" And so he was, in a twinkling, but the money-lender of course was blind of both, and in trying to steer his way between the two new wells, he fell into one, and was drowned.

The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin

When all was ready, Katar burst out of his stable, with the prince on his back, rushed past the King himself before the King had time to shoot him, galloped away to the great jungle-plain, and galloped about all over it. The King saw his horse had a boy on his back, though he could not see the boy distinctly. The sepoys tried in vain to shoot the horse; he galloped much too fast; and at last they were all scattered over the plain.

The king had the pit dug, and commanded all the maids belonging to the palace to try to jump it. All of them tried, but only one succeeded. That one was found to be a man!!