Ludwig Emil Grimm

Grimm, Ludwig Emil (1790–1863), the first illustrator (1825) for the fairy tales of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Before they were published in the Small Edition, Wilhelm Grimm suggested changes to his brother's seven initial studies (‘Red Riding Hood’, ‘The Goosegirl’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Our Lady's Child’, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’) to increase their Christian content (a Bible on grandmother's table in ‘Red Riding Hood’) and symbolic intent (less foliage and spiky dead limbs on the tree under which Our Lady's Child took shelter, a tearful Gretel). Later illustrators often quoted Grimm's designs.

Bibliography

• Koszinowski, Ingrid and Leuschner, Vera (eds.), Ludwig Emil Grimm 1790–1863: Maler, Zeichner, Radierer (1985).

— Ruth B. Bottigheimer

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