Deutsche Kinder-Märchen : 12 Lieblingsmärchen für die Jugend ; mit 72 Farbdruckbildern nach Aquarellen
A German children's collection of twelve favourite fairy tales, published by Loewe in 1884 with text by Carl Offterdinger and illustrations by Heinrich Leutemann, aimed at young readers. The pictures are chromolithographs after watercolours, with bright flat colour, clear outlines and simple staging of single moments: a child in a doorway, a girl with a red-coated huntsman and dog, a cat beside a booted young man, and a witch-like old man greeting two children. A designer could take the warm, storybook palette and the legible, uncluttered compositions with one or two figures set against plain backgrounds.
