Oskar Herrfurth (5 February 1862 – 1934) was a German painter and illustrator.[1] [2]
Münchhausen
Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Herrfurth was born in Merseburg , Province of Saxony , Kingdom of Prussia . He received his education at the art school in Weimar , where he lived for many years, later then in Hamburg . He created genre paintings as well as fairy tale pictures and worked as illustrator . He illustrated, among other things, the tall tales of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen , works by Karl May as well as Grimms' Fairy Tales and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Ludwig Bechstein .
Illustrator of the following postcard series, all published by Uvachrom:
Münchhausen Eulenspiegel Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten Der kleine Däumling Der Schweinehirt Die sieben Raben Der Rattenfänger von Hameln Siebenschön (Bechstein), six-part seriesDer Wolf und die sieben Geißlein Marienkind Das Schlaraffenland Die Heinzelmännchen [3] Illustrated books:
Der blaurote Methusalem [ de ] Karl May . With one color cover image and 16 tone print images. 4th edition. Stuttgart among others: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1904).Karl May. Der Ölprinz . With 16 colour print images. 5th and last edition. Stuttgart among others: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1909).
Hans Ries: Illustration und Illustratoren des Kinder- und Jugendbuchs im deutschsprachigen Raum 1871–1914. [4] ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
Ely, Richard (2017-08-27). "Oskar Herrfurth" . Fées, elfes, lutins | Peuple Féerique - Le Petit Monde de Richard Ely (in French). Retrieved 2020-07-29 . Herrfurth, Oskar; Potter, Elizabeth M. (2020-02-25). Märchenbilder POSTKARTENBUCH Teil 2: Kinderbuch, Bilderbuch, Postkarten, farbig illustriert, Geschenk, Geburtstag, Weihnachten, Ostern, Bilderbuch, Schule ISBN 978-3-7504-6068-3 
