The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
* Hugo Winckler, Himmels- und Weltenbild der Babylonier, als Grundlage der Weltanschauung und Mythologie aller Völker, Leipzig, 1901, p. 49.—The Babylonian astrological mythology, as described by Hugo Winckler, is a local specification, amplification, and application of themes that are of the essence of mythology everywhere.
† Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, “De la ‘Mentalité Primitive,’ ” Etudes traditionnelles, 44e Année, Nos. 236–237–238, Paris, 1939, p. 278.
* Cf. Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism, New York, 1930; Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art, Cambridge, Mass., 1934; Heinrich Zimmer, Kunstform und Yoga, Berlin, 1936.
About the Illustrator
Josef Scharl (1896–1954) was born in Munich and lived in Germany until 1938, when he emigrated to the United States. He began to draw and paint at the age of fourteen, and later studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, as well as in Rome and Paris. In 1929 he received the Albrecht Duerer Award, in 1930, the City of Munich Award and the Prix-de-Rome, and in 1931 the Dr. Mond Prize and the Foerderer Prize. His paintings and drawings were exhibited throughout Germany and the United States, and in Rome and Amsterdam.
The 212 illustrations Josef Scharl did for this edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales won praise from both art and literary critics. According to art historian Alfred Neumeyer, this was “the ideal content for his style.… I do not hesitate to call this one of the most beautifully illustrated books.” And W. H. Auden wrote his 1944 review: “Josef Scharl … proves himself here to be one of the very few really good illustrators of our time. He understands, as too many do not, that book illustrating should not be a repetition of what has already been better communicated by the text, for that, as in most comic strips, only enfeebles and corrupts the imagination of the reader. The true function of the illustrator is to rethink the whole historical succession of the verbal story as a single, timeless, visual instant.”
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