Fairytale Forest

The Fairytale Forest is a 15-acre wooded section of the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands, wherein some of well-known fairy stories and fairy story figures are depicted by way of animated statues and homes. Most of the figures are inspired by means of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault. The Fairytale Forest turned into based on the paintings of R.J.Th. Van der Heijden, Peter Reijnders and Anton Pieck. Van der Heijden conceived of the idea inside the Nineteen Fifties to reinforce tourism.

He asked his brother-in-law Peter Reijnders, a filmmaker and beginner inventor from Eindhoven, to recreate a fairy tale subject park Reijnders constructed. Reijnders chose artist Anton Pieck, whose visual style have been inspired by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, to feature the creative elements. It took kind of years to broaden and construct the first ten fairy memories: The Chinese Nightingale, The Naughty Princess, Sleeping Beauty, The Gnome Village, "Number One", The Frog Prince, The Magic Clock, Mother Holle, Snow White and The Six Servants.