Fairy tales

Miracles, according to the German storyteller Wilhelm Gauf, can happen anywhere. During the time of Garun al-Rashid, the lords of Baghdad, on the noisy bazaars of the eastern cities, one could easily meet a fairy, and the lost prince, and the Sultan dressed in simple clothes. Whereas an evil witch looks at the market of a German town, and a good glass man or a ruthless Dutchman Michel in the forests in the heart of Europe.
Gaufu it was a pity that the fairy tale was not appreciated the favorite daughter of the queen of fantasy. And he tried to pay attention to her: “Rented” his stories in the form of an almanac’s fashionable at that time. "The fairy tale extended her hand and began to draw some signs in the air with an index finger. And in front of the audience flashed the clogging paintings: caravans, beautiful horses, discharged horsemen, countless tents in the sands of deserts, birds and fish in the stormy seas, quiet forests and crowded squares and streets, battles and peaceful nomads - all of them are a dog string, in living images , swept past ". So the fairy tale, having strewn the vigilance of the guards, fell into the world of people. And for two centuries, images from the fairy tales of Gauf attract the attention of artists. Nika Golts is one of the few who illustrated almost all the stories from the almanacs of the tales of the German writer