Picturing that which is not, again.

At the risk of repeating myself, I love fairytale illustrations. So here are some more – this time with an art nouveau and jugend style.

So if you wish- step right up, for this time there will be trolls. Mossy, green and strange trolls that seem to blend in and be a part of the forest around them. There will be luminescent princesses and lost boys wandering the woods. And there will be forests, lots and lots of forests.

( a cut for hiding the pictures )

These paintings are made by John Bauer (1888-1918). He was a Swedish illustrator and painter. He painted trolls and fairytale motives until the outbreak of World War I, but the horrors reported from the war made him feel that trolls were too trivial, and so he stopped. It gets sadder – he drowned in 1918, along with his wife and their little son.
( and some more pictures )

Picturing that which is not, again.

At the risk of repeating myself, I love fairytale illustrations. So here are some more – this time with an art nouveau and jugend style.

So if you wish- step right up, for this time there will be trolls. Mossy, green and strange trolls that seem to blend in and be a part of the forest around them. There will be luminescent princesses and lost boys wandering the woods. And there will be forests, lots and lots of forests.

( a cut for hiding the pictures )

These paintings are made by John Bauer (1888-1918). He was a Swedish illustrator and painter. He painted trolls and fairytale motives until the outbreak of World War I, but the horrors reported from the war made him feel that trolls were too trivial, and so he stopped. It gets sadder – he drowned in 1918, along with his wife and their little son.
( and some more pictures )