Сказки братья Гримм илл. Анастасия Архипова

In Germany, illustrations for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm by Russian artist Anastasia Arkhipova are considered very German and are recognized as classics. Half-timbered houses, powerful medieval castles and towers, carved wooden benches and tiled stoves, narrow stockings-chausses and quilted gippons - every detail in the artist's watercolors refers to the medieval European tradition, each element indicates that folk tales, collected by writers, there is a specific historical basis. The drawings are gentle and lyrical; they soften the well-known harshness of the fairy tales of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.