"The Good Bargain" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, KHM 7. This antisemitic fairytale was added to the Grimms' collection Kinder- und Hausmärchen with the second edition of 1819
The Soldier, the Peasant and the Jew in The Good Bargain, illustration by Hermann Vogel - Kinder- und Hausmärchen, München: Verlag von Braun u. Schneider, c. 1892
The Peasant and the Frogs - illustration by Hermann Vogel - Kinder- und Hausmärchen, München: Verlag von Braun u. Schneider, c 1892
The Peasant appeals to the King- illustration by Hermann Vogel - Kinder- und Hausmärchen, München: Verlag von Braun u. Schneider, c 1893
The Soldier and the Jew claim their reward - Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde for Grimms' Fairy Tales (1909)
Otto Ubbelohde was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.
The Good Bargain
…counted out to him - but instead of five hundred thalers the reward was five hundred blows. The Soldier and the Jew claim their reward - Illustration by Otto Ubbelohde for Grimms' Fairy Tales (1909) "Sire," said the peasant, "the reward no longer belongs to me for I gave two hundred to the sentry and three hundred to…
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