Lothar Meggendorfer

Lothar Meggendorfer was a German artist who is most well known for his elaborate pop up books, the first of which was published in 1862. Meggendorfer started out as a writer and illustrator for a humor magazine but eventually began creating pop up books after making one as a Christmas gift for his son. He ultimately made over 200 books which were published in German and English. Meggendorfer constructed the original books along with elaborate plans for workers to reproduce them. Workers actually hand painted most of the early books but later began using lithograph.

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Sketchbook

This link contains images from Meggendorfer's sketch books. It is particularly interesting to see the sketches that appear to be of characters from later produced pop up books. There is a sketch that resembles the character Kasperl which is included in BibliOdyssey.