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Of special charm are his illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield (1841), for Musäus ' Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1842) and for numerous other fairy tales, for the Goethe Album (1855), for Schiller 's Glocke (1857), and those cyclical publications which reveal the most brilliant side of the artist's inexhaustible fancy, such as Beschauliches un...
Title: Three Designs for Book Illustrations. Artist: Adrian Ludwig Richter (German, Dresden 1803–1884 Dresden) Date: 1820–84. Medium: Graphite. Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 4 13/16 in. (22.3 x 12.2 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Gift of J. B. Neumann, 1930. Accession Number: 30.26.4a, b, c
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Jun 23, 2019 · Adrian Ludwig Richter (German, 1803-1884) Richter, one of the most beloved artists in Germany during most of the nineteenth century, was the son and the pupil of Carl August Richter, Professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Dresden. Adrian Ludwig worked under his direction for his first twelve years.
The numerous illustrations Ludwig Richter made of fairy tales and other popular nineteenth-century literature for the home have earned him an established if locally limited position in German popular art.
With the increasing sense of national pride and the development of mass publishing, Ludwig Richter's fairy-tale illustrations made him a cultural hero for the German people before and after the unification of Germany in 1871.
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