Das Struwwelpeter-Manuscript

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Das Struwwelpeter-Manuscript

Artist Heinrich Hoffmann (German, 1809-1894)

Publisher Literarische Anstalt Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1925

Printer Graphischen Kunstanstalt F. Bruckmann, A.G., Munich

Binder Buchbinderei R. Oldenbourg, Munich

Author Heinrich Hoffmann (German, 1809-1894)

Date1925

MediumReproductions: collotype in colors on ivory wove paper; collotype in black on J. W. Zanders cream laid paper. Text: letterpress on J. W. Zanders cream laid paper.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.564

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Label TextDas Struwwelpeter contains 10 illustrated and rhymed stories. The stories are clear moral tales which often have gruesome outcomes. Heinrich Hoffmann wrote and illustrated the book, first published in 1844, when he could not find a suitable storybook for his three-year old son. Not surprisingly, all but one of the stories focuses on a misbehaving child or children, such as the title Struwwelpeter (Shaggy Peter), a slovenly boy who does not bathe or groom himself. Perhaps the most famous story from the book is The Story of the Thumb-Sucker, in which a roving tailor cuts the thumbs of a little boy who refuses to stop sucking his thumb.