Books & Articles
“Beasts Within and Beasts Without: Colonial Themes in Lothar Meggendorfer’s Children’s Books.” By Amanda M. Brian. German Studies Review 37.2 (2014): 253-274.
Catalogue of the Meggendorfer archive, comprising watercolour drawings, hand-coloured proofs, and specimen sheets for moving picture books, panoramas, transformation books, and other publications by Lothar Meggendorfer. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1982. Catalog for an auction held in London, June 1, 1982.
The Genius of Lothar Meggendorfer: A Movable Toy Book. With an appreciation by Maurice Sendak. Designed by David Pelham. Illustrated by Jim Deesing after Lothar Meggendorfer. Paper engineering by Tor Lokvig. Random House, 1985. ISBN 0394546903
“Listening to Lothar Meggendorfer’s Nineteenth Century Children’s Books.” By Amanda M. Brian. Princeton University Library Chronicle 74.3 (2013): 366-396. [Open Access]
Lothar Meggendorfer e il contesto editoriale italiano tra Otto e Novecento. Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo, 2025. ISBN 9791298516618
“Meggendorfer Online – Animating Movable Books.” By Marius Hug. Electronic workshops in computing (Online), 2017. [Open access]
The Publishing Archive of Lothar Meggendorfer: Original Drawings, Hand-Colored Lithographs and Production Files for His Children’s Book Illustrations. With an appreication by Maurice Sendak. J.G. Schiller, 1975. Auction catalog.
“When Clothes Don’t Make the Man: Sartorial Style, Conspicuous Consumption, and Class Passing in Lothar Meggendorfer’s Scenes in the Life of a Masher.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 37.1 (2012): 43-65
Archival Collections
University of California – Meggendorfer (Lothar) Papers, ca. 1888-1943
University of Wisconsin-Madison – Lothar Meggendorfer Collection
Websites
The Charming World of Lothar Meggendorfer
Cotsen Research Projects: Lothar Meggendorfer’s Mechanical Books – Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton University
The Dramatic Flair of Pop-Up Artist Lothar Meggendorfer – Highly illustrated, from Disappointingly Muddy
The Genius of Lothar Meggendorfer – The Letterpress Project
Listening to Lothar Meggendorfer’s Nineteenth-Century Moving Picture Books [PDF]
Lothar Meggendorfer – Artvee
Lothar Meggendorfer – PicturePedagogica
Lothar Meggendorfer – Wikipedia [French] [German]
Meggendorfer Awards – from the Movable Book Society
The Originality and Artistry of Lothar Meggendorfer – University of Virginia Library
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