Oskar Herrfurth

Oskar Herrfurth (5 February 1862 – 1934) was a German painter and illustrator.

[1][2] Herrfurth was born in Merseburg, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia.

He received his education at the art school in Weimar, where he lived for many years, later then in Hamburg.

He created genre paintings as well as fairy tale pictures and worked as illustrator.

He illustrated, among other things, the tall tales of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, works by Karl May as well as Grimms' Fairy Tales and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Ludwig Bechstein.