How The Pied Piper of Hamelin Lives On Through Art and Legend
Public art installations, such as the bronze Pied Piper statue in Hamelin, celebrate the town’s connection to the legend while inviting new interpretations. Murals in urban settings reimagine the story for modern audiences, sometimes casting the Piper as a political figure or social disruptor.
“The Pied Piper of Hamelin” by Augustin von Mörsperg
Feb 2, 2018 · This watercolor painting is the oldest pictorial depiction of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the folktale made famous by the Grimm brothers. The story recounts the tale pied piper who was hired to eradicate all the rats living within the village of Hamelin, Germany.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - National Galleries of Scotland
This painting illustrates the legend of a mysterious piper, whose music freed the city of Hamelin from a plague of rats. After the ungrateful citizens refused to give him the payment he had asked, he once more played on his pipe, and this time the children all followed him and disappeared, never to be seen by their families again.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Author: Robert Browning (British, London 1812–1889 Venice) Illustrator: Kate Greenaway (British, London 1846–1901 London) Engraver: Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight) Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. London & New York.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrator: Arthur Rackham (British, London 1867–1939 Limpsfield, Surrey) Author: Robert Browning (British, London 1812–1889 Venice) Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. (London) Printer: R. & R. Clark (Edinburgh) Published in: London. Date: [1934] Medium: Illustrations: photomechanical process
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Artist: Henry Marsh (American, 1826–1912) Artist: After John La Farge (American, New York 1835–1910 Providence, Rhode Island) Date: 1868. Medium: Wood engraving. Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921. Accession Number: 21.65.4.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Art UK
This painting illustrates the legend of a mysterious piper, whose music freed the city of Hamelin from a plague of rats. After the ungrateful citizens. You can help us tag artworks on Tagger. The tags above come from the public, and also from an image recognition project run by the Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford .
"Frontispiece to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" - The Victorian Web
The Pied Piper is not "pied" but dressed in scarlet, a splash of deep and dangerous colour, and concentrates on his piping as the innocent white-frocked children respond to his music, several of them dancing under a huge cherry tree laden with its evanescent blossom.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Elizabeth Adela Forbes - Art Fund
The pastel of the Pied Piper is a superb example of this: the group of children seem drawn by an irresistible gravitational pull, caught up in one glorious sweep of movement as the piper leads them away from the bright sunlight towards the mysterious darkness of the woods.'
Pied Piper of Hamelin - Richard Doyle - WikiArt.org
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’ was created by Richard Doyle in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.