Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories

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Web Name: Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories

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Andersen,Christian,Hans,

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Andersen’s tales in this collection are illustrated by the “official” Andersen illustrators, i. e., the Danish artists chosen by Andersen to illustrate the collected Danish editions of his tales: The naval officer Lieutenant Vilhelm Pedersen (1820-59), who illustrated the 1849 edition (45 tales, 125 illustrations) and continued to illustrate Andersen’s work for the next ten years, and Lorenz Frølich (1820-1908), who illustrated Andersen’s work between 1867 and 1874. See also the chapter “Hans Christian Andersen and his Illustrators”, in Fairy Tales From Hans Christian Andersen—A Classic Illustrated Edition, Russel Ash and Bernard Higton (eds.), Chronicle Books, 1992. The background of these pages is reproduced from a paper cutting made by Andersen himself. Elias Bredsdorff explains: “The items on the pierrot’s tray... represent some of the stages in Andersen’s life: his birthplace in Odense, the old grammar school in Slagelse, the windmill man (a fairy-tale motif), Saint Canute’s Church in Odense, and the ugly duckling transformed into a swan.” Johan de Mylius, in his book H. C. Andersen Paper Cuts, Aschehoug Dansk Forlag, 2000, elaborates: “...a frog-like gnome, dancer, or circus performer, his mouth open in a shriek. And like mythological Atlas, he carries above him visible reality, the urban world and a segment of the world of poetry and nature. This could be the hidden and infernal side of the artist, who—brought to his knees by normalcy—presents on a tray the side of realty that we know and wish and acknowledge. How long can he hold it? When will it tip over?” See also the book The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen by Beth Wagner Brust, Ticknor Fields, 1994 (paperback reprint edition, 2003). In 2 March 2005, the same paper cutting appeared on a Danish stamp issued for Andersen’s Bicentennial, to represent Hans Christian Andersen the artist. All the above books, and other books in English by or about Hans Christian Anderen, may be found in our virtual bookstore. Books in French may be found in our librairie virtuelle. Andersen’s 1875 photograph by Georg E. Hansen and many more are available from the Picture Database of the Danish Royal Library. Then her husband asked, “From whence hast thou all at once derived such strength and comforting faith?” And as she kissed him and her children, she said, “It came from God, through my child in the grave.”

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