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Published: 2009-07-01 19:08:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 4483; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 255
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"Who wants to eat bread, must earn it"So, I have this old brothers Grimms' book at home that has always fascinated me during my childhood. It's in German, since my Dad is Swiss and has some beautiful illustrations in it.
I chose the illustrations from "Aschenputtel" (German for Cinderella) because it's one of my favourite and has almost nothing to do with the Disney version.
I scanned them and then gave 'em a more aged look on photoshop. This is the first of five, Cinderella with her evil stepsisters. I wanted to put them together on a collage, but photoshop hated me and I gave up.
Enjoy!
Props go to the Grimms for their fabulous tales
-EDIT-
Edited the whole picture trying out some new techniques and it looks ten times better than the old one if you ask me.
Download for huuuuuge full view (recommended).
Nr 1: here
Nr 2: [link]
Nr 3: [link]
Nr 4: [link]
Nr 5: [link]
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Comments: 8
I used to have an english copy
of this from More Favorite Tales
From Grimm, illustrated by
Svend Otto S.
It was the first fully illustrated version
of Aschenputtel I'd ever seen, and to
date there still aren't many that
even come close, either in quality or in
being Fully illustrated.. The book has been
out of print since the '80s. Thank you so much for sharing!
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I like this story, too
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It's from a book I owned since I was a little girl, it has always fascinated me!
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Isn't it hypocritical how they say "Who wants to eat eread must earn it" but they sit their lazy asses around all day? I love this version! The birds and the tree are just magical....
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Totally! And they also said that wearing nice dresses and such wasn't appropriate, but then they were always wearing nice silk dresses...
Yeah, the Grimm's version is my favourite. I love how it differs from the Disney movie! Don't get me wrong, I'm a Disney freak myself, but I love how twisted this one is... Like the stepsisters cutting their feet in order to wear the shoe! lol
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I'm a Disney freak too, but I love love love the original stories too!! They can be way more interesting in all sorts
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The Grimm cinderella has so much of
the sadism, and even pathos, that this
tale requires. No movie has ever really told the story in quite that way. The closest was a
1989 european film. It probably strayed from Grimm so it wouldn't be too tragic, sadistic, or gory for small children. The next closest, in some respects, is "the Glass Slipper" from 1955
starring Leslie Caron. Here the stepsisters are "the
most beautiful girls in the village", their Aunt
Lulu is a promiscuous social climber, and
cinder-Ella herself is raggedly drab, has short-cropped dark hair, and is always so smudged that the townsfolk aren't at all sorry for her. They even think that she is deliberately troublesome to her "kind" widowed
stepmother! Sorry. TMI huh?
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