Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (1896-1970)
06-Dec-2006 Filed in: Swedish painters
Swedish illustrator, replaced John Bauer as the illustrator of Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Pixies and Trolls), moved to America in 1920 where he later found work as illustrator at Disney and worked on several movies incl. Snow White. You can read more about him here.
Here are three troll illustrations by him:
Trolls descending a hill (1915), watercolour and gouache
"She combed their hair" (Bathing in a lily pond), tempera
Troll being chased out of the village
Finally a beautiful watercolour from 1917 called "The Fairytale Forest" with trolls lurking behind every stone and tree - painted during the horrors of World War I:
Here are three troll illustrations by him:
Trolls descending a hill (1915), watercolour and gouache
"She combed their hair" (Bathing in a lily pond), tempera
Troll being chased out of the village
Finally a beautiful watercolour from 1917 called "The Fairytale Forest" with trolls lurking behind every stone and tree - painted during the horrors of World War I: