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Illustrations
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The Sort of Illustrations
Exhibitions
Online-Exhibition
The
Sort of Illustrations
The Munchausen-Tales themselves
have the character of pictures - everyone seems to make his own
visual imagination reading or telling the stories.
The Munchausen-book is one of the
most illustrated books of all famous collections of tales.
The most famous situation
of the baron:
Both of these facts are
represented in the early illustration below (1822): You see the
Baron sitting over a bottle of wine having told his stories - in
front of two pictures - showing some adventures of himself.
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Portrait
with pictures
in the picture
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The main bibliography concerning Munchausen in 1969 (E. Wackermann,
Münchhausiana, Stuttgart 1969, Eggert) counts about 100 names
of illustrators. The catalogue of an exhibition in Zurich in 1996
was able to tell about 130 illustrators, only for children-books.
A check-list in 1999 contents about 300 names – today we can
imagine that we would reach more than 400.
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| J.B. Clark
1895 |
A. Steiner 1925 |
A. Cerbian 1995 |
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The Munchausen-Library
holds a collection of pictures illustrating the adventure of the
horse which was cut in two parts by the portcullis of the town-gate.
These 530 pictures prove a very large variety of visualisations
concerning the Munchausen tales.
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Exhibitions and Events
The Munchausen-Library
has participated in the following exhibitions or events:
- 12.04 - 27.05.2007 - Martin Distelis Kunst unter der Lupe -
Augenweide und Agitation.
Kunstmuseum Olten, (= Looking exactly on the pictures
of Martin Disteli - great plesure and political messages; Museum
of fine Arts, Olten Switzerland)
- 20.09. – 25.10.1998 – Münchhausen. Vom Jägerlatein
zum Weltbestseller. In der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Göttingen, Paulinerkirche.(= Munchausen - The book
of lies as a bestseller worldwide. Göttingen, Germany)
- 10.01. – 14.03.1998 – Münchhausen. Vom Jägerlatein
zum Weltbestseller. Staatsbibliothek
Berlin, Unter den Linden und Potsdamerstrasse (= Munchausen
- The book of lies as a bestseller worldwide. Berlin)
- 04.05.1997 – Münchhausen reitet zehnmal durch die
Luft, oder: Die Taufe der Münchhausologie. Kommentierte Vorführung
von Hörspielen, Dia-Serien, Filmausschnitten zu ausgewählten
Geschichten. Ausstellung von Plakaten zu Münchhausen-Filmen,
Kino Nische, Kulturzentrum Gaswerk, Winterthur CH) (= Munchausen
rides on the canon-ball, ten times. A movie-session to the most
famous adventure of the baron, Winterthur, Switzerland)
- 02.05 – 28.06.1996 – Münchhausen, ein amoralisches
Kinderbuch. Swiss Institute for
children-literature, Zurich und Münchhausen-Museum Bodenwerder.
(= Munchausen as children - book. Zurich, Switzerland)
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Online-Exhibition
Text in German: Der schwarze
Fuchs
The text in English see
at the end of this page, please!
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| Martin Disteli, 1841 |
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Gustave Doré,
1862 |
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| Georg
Cruikshank, 1867 |
Philip Sporrer, 1874 |
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| Oscar Woite, 1893 |
J. B. Clark |
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| Josef
von Diveky, 1913 |
Paul Leuteritz, ca.
1917 |
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| K. Gundermann,
1923 |
A. Hofmann-Stollberg,
1920 |
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| R. de la Nézière,
ca. 1930 |
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In a noble forest in Russia I met a
fine black fox, whose valuable skin
it would have been a pity to tear by
ball or shot. Reynard stood close to
a tree. In a twinkling I took out my
ball, and placed a good spike-nail in
its room, fired, and hit him so
cleverly that I nailed his brush fast
to the tree. I now went up to him,
took out my hanger, gave him a
cross-cut over the face, laid hold of
my whip, and fairly flogged him out
of his fine skin. (R.E.Raspe, 1786) |
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5/2008© by Bernhard Wiebel
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Munchausen
discovers the library of Alexandria William Strang 1895
The Text
in English is just in preparation.
The story to the picture
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