In attempt to cheer myself up about my city’s neverending thundersnow, I present here Beatrice Braun-Fock’s whimsical illustrations for Old Man Winter Comes to Town by Hilde Hoffmann. The German edition was published in 1959. I have a 1960 American edition from Franklin Watts Inc.
I first encountered Braun-Fock at Illuopa, where Patrick posted scans from her much earlier (1937) book Das Mannlein Mittentzwei. I loved those so much I tracked down a copy of Mittentzwei (not easy), and then a couple other books by her.
(spread)
(detail)
Canceled-stamp coat.
Sweeper trolls.
The North Wind
(spread)
(half of spread)
Beatrice Braun-Fock, illustration for Das Mannlein Mittentzwei (1937)
via Illuopa
A selection of posts in my “Forgotten Illustrators” series:
—Jiri Trnka
—Dorothy Lathrop
—Nura
—Viera Gergel’ova
—Ančka Gošnik-Godec
—Egon Mathiesen
—Helga Aichinger
