Hansel and Gretel Illustrations
Free Pictures of Hansel and Gretel by Famous Artists
Popular fairy tale about the brother and sister who are abandoned in the woods where they encounter the cannibalistic witch was illustrated by millions of artists. The scenes with the pebbles, the cage, and the oven were their favorites. Let's enjoy them in alphabetical order of the artists:
Anne Anderson (1874-1952)
Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Anne Anderson, was published in 1922 by W. Collins Sons & Co. in London and Glasgow.
Our source is Old, Old Fairy Tales, published by Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, 1935. Anderson's recognizable Art Nouveau style typically has bright colors and curvy lines.
Richard Andre (1834-1907)
William Roger Snow, aka Clifford Merton, aka Richard Andre, illustrated numerous fairy tales by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, many of them more than once.
The illustration of Hansel and Gretel is from Grimm's fairy tales; retold in one-syllable words by Brothers Grimm, published by McLoughlin Brothers, New York, in 1899.
Walther Caspari (1869-1913)
If the name sounds familiar - the answer is yes. Walther Caspari was Gertrud Caspari's brother. He mostly worked for satirical magazines.
This illustration comes from one of his many collaborations with Gertrud. It was created in 1905.
Frederika Sophia (Fre) Cohen (1903-1943)
Fre Cohen was a versatile artist and designer.
The image of kids following their parents into the dark woods was made in 1929. Today, it belongs to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Robert Ambrose Dudley (1867-1951)
The gingerbread house by the cannibalistic witch is probably the best-known building in fairy tales, even more notorious than the tower with Rapunzel or the castle of the Briar Rose.
Robert Ambrose Dudley illustrated the scene for Once Upon a Time, published by Ernest Nister in 1900.
Pauline Ebner (1873-1949)
This is just one of eleven illustrations from Hansel and Gretel by Pauli Ebner.
Hellmut Eichrodt (1872-1943)
This illustration comes from the picture book published in 1920.
Richard Flockhaus (1876-1943)
Flockhaus made five color illustrations for The Most Beautiful Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm in 1910.
The book was published by Verlag Jugendhort.
Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938)
John Barton Gruelle illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1914 for Cupples & Leon (New York).
The book was republished in 1922 with his color illustrations. It's not clear if he colored them by himself or if somebody else did that.
Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882)
This illustrator mostly signed his work by Phiz and made his name by illustrating works written by Charles Dickens.
The illustration of Hansel and Gretel comes from Grimm's Goblins, published in 1861 by George Vickers, London.
Eugen Johann Georg Klimsch (1839-1896)
Eugen Klimsch created numerous illustrations of Grimms' fairy tales, but only five in color.
This one, of course, is one of them. It's from the book published in 1923.
Otto Kubel (1868-1951)
Otto Kubel was a famous illustrator and postcard designer. Many of his illustrations were used for picture books and postcards.
William Henry Margetson (1861-1940)
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842-1915)
Paul Meyerheim started his artistic career as a painter.
Like many other trained painters, he devoted more and more time to illustrations in the later years of his life. Hansel and Gretel was made in 1893.
Jenny Nystrom (1854-1946)
Jenny Eugenia Nystrom was one of the most successful postcard artists of her time.
Her view of Hansel and Gretel seems a bit strange for today+s taste. These designs were used as Christmas greeting cards!
Carl Offterdinger (1829-1889)
The next two illustrations are from the 1884 edition of German Fairy Tales for Children, published by Verlag von Wilhelm Effenberger in Stuttgart and Leipzig.
The complete set of illustrations can be viewed here.
Ralph Noel Pocock (1878-1949)
Noel Pocock was known for strong colors, which seemed too aggressive to some viewers.
Illustration above is one of 22 color plates created in 1913 made for Grimm’s Fairy Tales, published by Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton.
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
Arthur Rackham illustrated the Grimms' fairy tales on several occasions.
Arthur Rackham illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1909 (first published in the 1900 edition by Constable & Company Ltd., London) at the top of popularity of prestigious gift books. As we can see, the illustrator didn't really bother to make the illustrations cute and stayed true to the dark tones of original collection.
Louis John Rhead (1857-1926)
We decided to include a few black-and-white drawings in the selection. This one is made by Louis for Grimm's Fairy Tales, Stories and Tales of Elves, Goblins, and Fairies by Brothers Grimm with many illustrations and decorations by Louis Rhead.
The book was published by Harper & Brothers, New York, in 1917 and had over four hundred pages with more than one hundred pen and ink drawings altogether!
Charles Robinson (1870-1937)
This is the only color plate from Hansel and Gretel, one of more than 20 fairy tales in The Big Book of Fairy Tales, edited by Walter Jerrold.
The book was published by Blackie & Son in 1911. More is available here.
Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938)
The painting below was created in 1919 with the obvious influence of The Great War.
Harry Rountree (1878-1950)
Harry Rountree created first illustrations for Stories from Grimm in 1910.
The illustration above comes from My Book of Best Fairy Tales, published in 1915 and republished in 1919.
Franziska Schenkel (1880-1945)
Grimms' Fairy Tales, illustrated by Franziska Schenkel, was published in 1913.
It's hard to find reliable data about Franziska Schenkel's illustrations. She created at least nine color images from Grimm's collection between 1900 and 1913.
Fritz Schoen (1871-1929)
Fritz Schon created numerous trading cards with fairy tale motifs for the Palmin food company.
It's not clear when this picture was created.
Evelyn Stuart Hardy (1865-1935)
In 1928 Ernest Nister published Grimm's Fairy Tales by E. S. Hardy.
E. S. Hardy created seven illustrations of fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers in romantic Art Nouveau style in 1928 for John F. Show, London. She created nine full-color illustrations. An interesting fact is that all the portrayed characters, including Snow White with her 'black as crow' hair are presented as redheads.
Hermann Vogel (1854-1921)
This artist was sometimes signed as Hermann Vogel-Plauen.
The illustration above comes from Children's and Household Tales, collected by the Brothers Grimm, and published in 1894 by Braun & Schneider, Munich.
Edward Henry Wehnert (1813–1868)
The first Wehnert's illustrations of Grimms' fairy tales were published in Household Stories in 1853.
He opted to picture the family scene and avoid the witch.
Albert Weisgerber (1878-1915)
Dark brown tones dominate the 1900 edition of Children and Household Tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Albert Weisgerber from 1900.
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)
Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated scenes from Hansel and Gretel on several occasions.
Both illustrations were done in watercolors by Miss Willcox Smith for A Child's Book of Stories, a collection of 20 popular fairy tales in 1913 by Duffield and Company, New York. The first image was made for Babes in the Woods (the image of the boy is different), but suits Hansel and Gretel, too, and most people use it that way.
Joseph Wopfner (1843-1927)
Joseph Wopfner was an Austrian landscape painter.
This painting was made with oil on canvas in 1875.
Alexander Zick (1845-1907)
Fairy Tales for Children, illustrated by Alexander Zick, were published by G. Grote’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung around 1885.
This book features Grimms' and Bechstein's fairy tales.
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