Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867 – September 6, 1939) was a prolific English book illustrator. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
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Life
He was born in London as one of 12 children. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying at the Lambeth School of Art. Lambeth School of Art was founded in 1854 by William Gregory as a night school associated with the St In 1892 he quit his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year His first book illustrations were published in 1893 in The Dolly Dialogues, the collected sketches of Anthony Hope, who later went on to write The Prisoner of Zenda. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A sketch story in older usage is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a Short story, and contains very little if any plot. Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933 was an English novelist and playwright The Prisoner of Zenda is an Adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. Book illustrating then became Rackham's career for the rest of his life.
In 1903, he married Edyth Starkie, with whom he had one daughter, Barbara, in 1908. Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Rackham won a gold medal at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906 and another one at the Barcelona International Exposition in 1911. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Arthur Rackham died 1939 of cancer in his home in Limpsfield, Surrey. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled Limpsfield is a village and parish in the east of the county of Surrey, England near Oxted at the foot of the North Downs. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties.
Works
Major works of illustration by Arthur Rackham include the children's books Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1900), Rip van Winkle (1905), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (50 colour plates) (1906), and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (13 colour plates) (1907). The Brothers Grimm ( German: Die Gebrüder Grimm) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, " Rip Van Winkle " is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis While he may be best known for his elaborate illustrations of children's literature and fairy tales, he also illustrated books for adult readers, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (40 colour plates) (1908), Undine (15 colour plates) (1909), the text to Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the Nibelung") (34 colour plates to The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (1910) and 32 colour plates to Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods (1911))(1911), short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by " The Knight's Tale " from Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic Music dramas by the German composer The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, Further works include The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (23 colour and monotone plates)(1917), The Springtide of Life (8 colour plates) (1918), Hawthorne's Wonder Book (16 colour plates) (1922) and The Tempest (20 colour plates) (1926).
Typically, Rackham contributed both colour and monotone illustrations towards the works incorporating his images - and in the case of Hawthorne's Wonder Book, he also provided a number of part-coloured block images similar in style to Meiji era Japanese woodblocks. The, or Meiji era, denotes the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor, running in the Gregorian calendar, from 23 October 1868 to 30 July
Gallery
 "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. " |
 "How at the Castle of Corbin a Maiden Bare in the Sangreal and Foretold the Achievements of Galahad", from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, by Alfred W. Pollard, 1917 |
 "The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the duke's daughter into a white hind", Illustration to English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel |
 "The giant Cormoran was the terror of all the country-side. Flora Annie Steel ( April 2 1847 -1929 was an English writer She was the daughter of George Webster Corbenic (also Carbonek and Corbin) is the name of the castle of the Holy Grail in the Lancelot-Grail cycle and Thomas Malory Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur 's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. Alfred William Pollard (1859 &ndash March 8, 1944) was an English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the Flora Annie Steel ( April 2 1847 -1929 was an English writer She was the daughter of George Webster ", Illustration to English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel |
 "The Three Bears", Illustration to English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel |
 "Siegfried awakens Brünnhilde" Illustration to Richard Wagner's "The Ring" |
 "Norns weaving destiny" Illustration to Richard Wagner's "The Ring" |
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 "Brünnhilde is visited by her Valkyrie sister Waltraute" Illustration to Richard Wagner's "The Ring" |
 "Rhine maidens warn Siegfried" Illustration to Richard Wagner's "The Ring" |
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 "The Rhinemaidens try to reclaim their gold" Illustration to Richard Wagner's "The Ring" |
 "The Twa Corbies", Illustration to Some British Ballads |
 David, Illustration to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens |
Influence
In one of the featurettes on the DVD of Pan's Labyrinth, director Guillermo Del Toro cites Rackham as an influence on the design of "The Faun" and other creatures in the film. The Three Bears or Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a notable children's bedtime story Brynhildr is a Shieldmaiden and a Valkyrie in Norse mythology, where she appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic Music dramas by the German composer Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya) is a major goddess in Norse Paganism, a subset of Germanic Paganism. The Norns ( Old Norse: norn, plural nornir) are a kind of Dísir, numerous female beings who rule the fates of the various races of Norse In Norse mythology the valkyries ( Old Norse Valkyrja "Choosers of the Slain" are Dísir, minor female deities Alberich was a legendary sorcerer who originated in the mythology or epic sagas of the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty of the 5th to 8th century AD and whose Hagen is the 37th-largest City in Germany, located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Wagner's Rhinemaidens The Neck ( English) or the Nix/Nixe ( German) refer to Shapeshifting water spirits who usually appear in human form See also Der Ring des Nibelungen The Rhinemaidens are the three water-nymphs ( Rheintöchter or Rhine daughters) who appear in Richard Wagner “The Three Ravens” ( Roud 5 is a folk Ballad, printed in the song book Melismata compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a novel by James M Barrie, published in 1906 it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish El laberinto del fauno, literally The Labyrinth of the Faun) is a 2006 Spanish language Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is an Academy Award -nominated Mexican filmmaker He liked the dark tone of Rackham's gritty realistic drawings and had decided to incorporate this into the film.
External links
- Works by Arthur Rackham at Project Gutenberg
- The Arthur Rackham Society
- Arthur Rackham and his art
- The Illustrators Project: Arthur Rackham
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
- Arthur Rackham art at Art Passions (free online gallery)
- SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Fairy Tale Illustrations of Arthur Rackham
- Children's Book Illustrators Gallery - Large Archive of Rackham's First edition illustrations
- Update to Arthur Rackham bibliography in "Studies in Illustration"
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