Picturing that which is not, again.
Oct. 29th, 2006 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baleanopteraAt 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.
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.
The paintings were made to illustrate stories written for and published in a children’s magazine called “Bland Tomter och Troll” – which can be translated to “Among Gnomes and trolls”.
Here the troll-mother, the smallest troll, is trying to convince the princess to marry one of her three sons. The princess is not amused.
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.
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.
The paintings were made to illustrate stories written for and published in a children’s magazine called “Bland Tomter och Troll” – which can be translated to “Among Gnomes and trolls”.
Here the troll-mother, the smallest troll, is trying to convince the princess to marry one of her three sons. The princess is not amused.
