Heinzelmännchen
Heinzelmännchen is a German picture book of verse by August Kopisch, published around 1880 for children, with chromolithographed scenes of small elf-like helper figures working through household trades. The pictures show the gnomes tailoring, butchering, brewing and mending, each scene framed by rhyming German text; a designer could take their crowded, cheerful multi-panel storytelling and the pointed-hat character design.
