Hexensieber

One of the great things I’ve found about Tumblr over the years is that there’s an awful lot of vintage SF/horror/fantasy book and magazine art on there, and not just the usual American stuff. I’ve got a ton of fumetti covers from there, plus whatever the Spanish French and German equivalents of fumetti are, which brings me to this:

I’ve seen this image on Tumblr a few times, but only recently have I seen it with such strident colours. It’s not quite as bold in this printed edition:

The picture itself is by Rudolf Sieber-Lonati, an Austrian artist who did tons of covers for magazines and pulp novels like this; you can sample his range at this site devoted to him (in German), which apparently also carries a few items misattributed to him according to his ISFDB entry…

…but it also appears on this recent reprint of an even older Krimi from Bastei, and with the markedly stronger colours of the version at the top. I’m curious as to which is the “right” version now, is the more colourful version what Sieber-Lonati actually painted (and the colours got lost in the printing and/or that copy of the magazine has faded) or was it enhanced somehow for the reprinted issue (but why, if it was)? I don’t know. I like the bigger colours better, anyway…