Otto Ubbelohde | |
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Born | Otto Ubbelohde 5 January 1867 Germany |
Died | 8 April 1922 | (aged 55)
Education | University of Marburg |
Occupation(s) | painter, etcher and illustrator |
Otto Ubbelohde (5 January 1867 – 8 May 1922) was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.[1]
Ubbelohde was born and grew up in Marburg,[1] where his father August Ubbelohde was a professor at the University of Marburg.[2] From 1900 he lived in Goßfelden, nowadays a part of the community of Lahntal.[1]
Ubbelohde gained international fame for illustrating books of Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1906 and 1908 creating about 450 illustrations of fairy tales.[3] He often took inspiration for his drawings from the landscape and buildings near his atelier and domicile in Goßfelden. For Rapunzel's tower he used as a model a building in Amönau called Lustschlößchen, while in Mother Hulda the landscape is inspired by the Rimberg.[4]