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May 26, 2018

May 26, 1954

Lisbeth Zwerger (May 26, 1954) is an illustrator, especially of children's books and fairytales. The New York Times mentions her Cheshire Cat "sports a convincingly weird feline."
Maria Popova says:

'Few feats of storytelling have possessed the popular imagination more powerfully or enduringly than the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. ....

'Among the most enrapturing visual reimaginings is one by the celebrated Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger. Having previously illustrated such beloved classics as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, [and] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,... she brings her singular vision to eleven of the Grimm stories in the absolutely gorgeous volume Tales from the Brothers Grimm: Selected and Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger....

'There is something particularly wonderful about the juxtaposition of the tales’ unabashed strangeness, which lends itself more readily to stark black-and-white illustrations and literal visual narration, and Zwerger’s soft watercolors, full of delicate abstraction. What emerges is a dialogue — an embrace, even — between the sharp outer edges of the stories and their interior sensitivity, bespeaking their dimensional enchantment.'

Zwerger's art has lots of cats. Here is one Popova uses, in thumbnail scale:




Lisbeth Zwerger is based in Vienna, her hometown.
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