Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colorful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful honor.
Hans Brinker tying on his sister Gretel's ice skates, in an illustration by Théophile Schuler from the 1876 French translation of the novel
Tourism statue in Madurodam, Netherlands, of the nameless boy plugging a dike
Tourism monument in Spaarndam, created in 1950, which reads: "Dedicated to our youth to honor the boy who symbolizes the perpetual struggle of Holland against the water"
Statue in Harlingen, originally created in 1960 for a Bert Haanstra film, then donated to Harlingen
Jules Théophile Schuler was a French painter and illustrator in the Romantic style. He gave his name to an art award established in 1938.
Portrait of Schuler with his dates of birth and death
The Time Demon. Illustration from Jules Verne's Master Zacharius
Recalling the Black Forest (Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg)
Erwin von Steinbach (1846, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)