The Little Mermaid

Sulamith Wulfing was a German artist and illustrator. For the first five years of her life she and her parents lived in complete seclusion. As a child, she had visions of angels, fairies, gnomes, and nature spirits. She first began drawing these creatures at the age of four. Wulfing described them as incarnations of "kind-heartedness" and drew upon them as the inspiration for her work. She lived through both World Wars (and in fact she was told by Joseph Goebbels that her illustrations were unacceptable and that she must stop; she refused). The visions continued throughout her life, and directly inspired her paintings. The mood of Wulfing's work ranges from serene to wistful to deeply melancholic. The subject is often mysterious.