Otto Ubbelohde was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.
Likeness of Otto Ubbelohde (ca. 1910) by Richard Winkel (1870-1941)
Otto and Hanna Ubbelohde 1906
Self-portrait, pen drawing 1914
Lustschlößchen in Amönau (Hesse, Germany) – template for Rapunzel tower
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1
Otto Ubbelohde
…Marburg. From 1900 he lived in Goßfelden, nowadays a part of the community of Lahntal. Ubbelohde gained international fame for illustrating books of Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1906 and 1908 creating about 450 illustrations of fairy tales. He often took inspiration for his drawings from the landscape and buildings near his…
Title page of first volume of Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1819) 2nd ed.
Monument to brothers Grimm in the market place in Hanau (Hessen, Germany)
Frontispiece used for the first volume of the 1840 4th edition
Frontispiece used for the second volume of the 1840 4th edition. The portrait by Ludwig Emil Grimm bears resemblance to the storyteller Dorothea Viehmann.