Otto Ubbelohde

Likeness of Otto Ubbelohde (est. 1910) of Richard Winkel (1870-1941)
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 (January 5, 1867 – May 8, 1922) was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.[1]

Life

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

Work

Ubbelohde got famous internationally by illustrating books of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Between 1906 and 1908 he created about 450 illustrations of fairy tales.[3] He took inspiration for this drawings from the landscape and buildings nearby his atelier and domicile in Goßfelden. For Rapunzel tower he used as template a building in Amönau, called Lustschlößchen, in Mother Hulda the landscape is inspired by the Rimberg.[4]

Gallery

Works in Books

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 on Website of district Marburg-Biedenkopf (German)

References

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External links

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