Stollwerck’s Sammel Album No. 2

This set of Stollwerck trade cards from 1898 carries the title “Popular Fairy Tales”. It shows, from left to right: Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Ruebezahl, The Goose-Girl, and Father Death.

The cards were designed by the German artist F. Philipp Schmidt who won third place in one of the Stollwerck prize competitions. The style of these pictures is more traditional, although the use of colors and technique betrays a nascient modernist tendency.