Otto Ubbelohde
Likeness of Otto Ubbelohde (ca. 1910) by Richard Winkel (1870-1941)
Born
Otto Ubbelohde

(1867-01-05)5 January 1867
Germany
Died8 April 1922(1922-04-08) (aged 55)
EducationUniversity of Marburg
Occupation(s)painter, etcher and illustrator
Otto and Hanna Ubbelohde 1906
Self-portrait, pen drawing 1914
Lustschlößchen in Amönau (Hesse, Germany) – template for Rapunzel tower
Rimberg (left hill) nearby Goßfelden – template for Mother Hulda

Otto Ubbelohde (5 January 1867 – 8 May 1922) was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.[1]

Life

Ubbelohde was born and grew up in Marburg,[1] where his father August Ubbelohde [de] was a professor at the University of Marburg.[2] From 1900 he lived in Goßfelden, nowadays a part of the community of Lahntal.[1]

Work

Ubbelohde gained international fame for illustrating books of Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1906 and 1908 creating about 450 illustrations of fairy tales.[3] He often took inspiration for his drawings from the landscape and buildings near his atelier and domicile in Goßfelden. For Rapunzel's tower he used as a model a building in Amönau called Lustschlößchen, while in Mother Hulda the landscape is inspired by the Rimberg.[4]

Gallery

Book illustrations

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Bernd Küster: Otto Ubbelohde. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984
  2. ^ R. Hoevel: Vorfahren Otto Ubbelohdes in sieben Generationen, in Katalog sämtl. Radierungen von O. U., Marburg 1967
  3. ^ Hans Laut: Otto Ubbelohde — Leben und Werk. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1943
  4. ^ Short biography Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine on Website of district Marburg-Biedenkopf (German)

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