Heitere Tierbilder
Heitere Tierbilder is a German picture book of animal fables with rhyming verses, published in Munich in 1901 by Braun & Schneider and made by the illustrator Emil Reinicke with text by Otto Bromberger, for children. Its pages are hand-coloured line illustrations with a verse panel under each scene, showing anthropomorphic animals in everyday dress, such as a fox, a bear, and elephants in a village setting. A designer could take the simple outlined figures, flat watercolour-like colour fills, and the comic staging of animals acting as people.
