The illustrations in Three Grimms' Fairy Tales by the German painter Gerard Wagner for "Briar Rose"; "Jorinde and Joringle"; and "The Star-Taler" represent a unique artistic approach to children's book illustration. Through Wagner's life-long investigation into how form can arise from objective color experience, the images are attuned individually in a deep way to the mood of each fairy tale and to children's essential moral nature and creative fantasy.
The book is a finely illustrated children's book as well as a book of fine art. Three Grimms Fairy Tales also includes an afterword on painting "out of the color" by Peter Stebbing, director of the Arteum Painting School in Dornach, Switzerland.
