Otto Ubbelohde (5 January 1867 – 8 May 1922) was a German

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and

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.Bernd Küster: ''Otto Ubbelohde''. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984

Life

Ubbelohde was born and grew up in

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, where his father was a professor at the

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. From 1900 he lived in ''Goßfelden'', nowadays a part of the community of

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Work

Ubbelohde gained international fame for illustrating books of

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, 1906 and 1908 creating about 450

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s of

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s.Hans Laut: ''Otto Ubbelohde — Leben und Werk''. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1943 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''.Shor
biography
on Website of district ''Marburg-Biedenkopf'' (German)

Gallery

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tower'' File:Otto Ubbelohde Frau Holle.jpg, '' Mother Hulda'' File:Otto Ubbelohde Frau in Weiß (Hanna Ubbelohde).jpg, ''Woman in White'' (Ubbelohdes wife Hanna)

Book illustrations

* Pussi Mau, und andere Tiergeschichten, Schaffstein, Cologne, circa 1904 * Gebrüder Grimm / Rob Riemann (Editor): ''Kinder und Hausmärchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm''. With 446 illustrations of Otto Ubbelohde. 3 Volumes. Turm-Verlag, Leipzig 1906 * Otto Ubbelohde: ''Aus Alt-Marburg. 20 Landschaftsbilder von Otto Ubbelohde.'' N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1906 * Otto Ubbelohde: ''Rings um Marburg. 20 Landschaftsbilder von Otto Ubbelohde.'' N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1907 * Karl Ernst Knodt / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): ''Meine Wälder. Worte von Karl Ernst Knodt. Bilder von Otto Ubbelohde.'' Verlag Hermann A. Wiechmann, München 1910 * Ernst Piltz / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): ''Führer durch Jena.'' Fromann'sche Hofbuchhandlung Eckard Klostermann, Jena 1912 * Gebrüder Grimm / Rob Riemann (Editors): ''Die Grimmschen Märchen in einer Auswahl''. Turm-Verlag, Leipzig 1912 * Otto Ubbelohde: ''Aus schöner alter Zeit. Federzeichnungen von Otto Ubbelohde.'' N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1913 * Martin Lang / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): ''Alt-Tübingen. 30 Federzeichnungen von Otto Ubbelohde.'' Wilhelm Kloeres, Tübingen 1913 * Otto Ubbelohde: ''Städte und Burgen an der Lahn. 20 Zeichnungen von Otto Ubbelohde.'' N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1914 * F. Bruns / H. Mahn / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations) / Verein zur Hebung des Fremdenverkehrs in Lübeck (Editor): ''Lübeck. Ein Führer durch die Freie u. Hansestadt und ihre nähere Umgebung.'' Rathgens, Lübeck 1918 * B. Flemes / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): ''Führer durch Hameln''. Schatzenberg, Hameln o. J. (est. 1920) * Ernst Koch / Otto Ubbelohde (Illustrations): ''Prinz Rosa-Stramin''. N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1922 * Ludwig Harig: ''Da fielen auf einmal die Sterne vom Himmel. Begegnungen mit Dornröschen und dem Eisenhans – eine Märchenreise im Jugendstil''. With drawings of Otto Ubbelohde. zu Klampen Verlag, Lüneburg 2002,

Notes

References

* Bernd Küster: ''Otto Ubbelohde''. 2nd modified edition, Lilienthal bei Bremen 1997, (actual scientific monograph) * Bernd Küster: ''Otto Ubbelohde''. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984, * Bernd Küster: ''Otto Ubbelohde und Worpswede''. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984, * Carl Graepler: ''Otto Ubbelohde - Katalog der Gemälde im Marburger Universitätsmuseum.'' 2. Auflage, Marburg 1988, * Peter Joch (Editor): ''Otto Ubbelohde. Kunst und Lebensreform um 1900''. Exhibition catalogue Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Häußer, Darmstadt 2001, * Hans Laut: ''Otto Ubbelohde — Leben und Werk''. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1943 (first monograph - tendentious to spirit of the time)

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: * Kreisausschuss Marburg-Biedenkopf, Kulturamt (Editor): ''Otto Ubbelohdes Illustrationen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Gebrüder Grimm'', Elwert-Verlag, Marburg 2001,

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