![Theodor Kittelsen - Dying Mountain Troll, 1887](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7322006332_e670d2a6fb_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Bergen Nøkken Fsh, 1907](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7099/7322004924_ebf7b38e93_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Peer Gynt](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/7322033846_2bcf48c5bd_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll, 1883](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8150/7322030712_2abb967bc3_b.jpg)
![Et sjøtroll](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/7322024404_24568336be_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Sea Troll (detail), 1887](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/7322026306_5e1a63fd79_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Dragon Awakens](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7322049832_3639b604a9_o.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Embrace, 1914](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7077/7322006692_6fe15fce1f_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - noekker](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8004/7322008866_37fcc8f652_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Old Woman By The Fire](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8166/7322312906_d6690a7305_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Fande og futen,1907](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8168/7322007554_0ec4669d53_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The World Do Not Pay Different my Dear Dragon](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7226/7322017486_d601084859_o.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Draugen](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7245/7322005520_274ff4642a_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Per Gynt in the Hall of the Mountain King, 1913](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7074/7322031772_b2c59c64a8_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Peer Gynt 02](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8023/7322034968_f1a7c59848_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Prinsessen lysker trollet, 1900](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7100/7322152744_50a6b26de3_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Troll at the Karl Johan Street, 1892](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7098/7322011546_5059f03567_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Troll on Karl Johan Square, 1892](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8024/7329745490_b3a4fdb31e_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - On a way to the Feast in the Trollcastle, 1904](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/7322318860_c034e33190_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Big troll in Breifonnen, 1892](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7228/7322054634_ce1856f729_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - At Night They Carried the Dead Away, 1901](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/7322055168_123e3b1f5a_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Skovtrold 1899](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8003/7322004534_8d454096d9_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The big Eken overshadowed the royal courtyard](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8021/7322314776_76cfea4d2e_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Great Oak Outside Kongsgården, 1911](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/7322029238_cd6e0da281_o.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Dragon, 1887](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/7322029732_656a566ed7_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Dragon 1904](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7322050154_e95b86b2a1_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - De tolv villender, 1907](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8144/7322053874_0b279e39d5_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Winter Evening, 1901](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8027/7322012044_63a5fbcfe3_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - folk og trold](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7104/7322026724_9dc25bf97e_o.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Troll Who Wanders About His Age, 1911](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7079/7322022590_db21dc3886_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Troll Who Wanders About His Age](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/7322019912_cf818bf48c_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Tomtegruvan](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8166/7322011382_fbbd1f762d_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Kjetta_som var så fæl til å ete, 1907](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7322044866_c4c07d3421_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Parental Pride](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7077/7322035568_5ac9e1921c_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Troll 2](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8149/7322017116_88deef6121_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Soria Moria slott, 1900](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8145/7322317068_849a9c36d8_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - From 'The Golden Bird, 1883](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8009/7322046732_bb9fe2eacd_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Troll and the Dyre](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8013/7322023748_6132111ed9_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - The Water Spirite as a white Horse, 1909](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7077/7322011062_8cb437b81f_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Vesletomten](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7220/7322015096_175fdecfed_c.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - Askeladden og de gode hjelperne](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8163/7322061774_d03f7d6c4a_b.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen - lysalver fanger skyggetussen](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8005/7322037950_8671911d65_c.jpg)
I suggest viewing this portfolio of illustrations from Kittelsen's Battle of Frogs and Mice. I assume this was the inspiration for the Mouse Guard comics, unless mice dressed as soldiers originates further back than this. More Kittelsen illustrations are organized into various albums from that site here.
10 comments:
There's one in the middle there that looks like Sweetums from the Muppets.
These are BEAUTIFUL! I adore his use of colours, especially in the picture with the fella in the water, number three.
i love ALL of these, wowwwww. i had one of the troll etchings saved on my computer for years and never new who it was that made it. thanks so much for sharing!
Definitely saw Sweetums too - and Hobbits, and Nick Cave's sound suits, and Snow White's dwarves.
The 15th illustration, signed E.W., is from Erik Werenskiold, not Theodor Kittelsen.
Greetings,
/Z/
Thanks, image updated and will be doing a future post on that artist soon. Looks like it got lumped into an assortment of Kittelsen on account of how similar it looks to his work.
This is amusing, I found a Kittelsen painting wrongfully credited to Werenskiold here - http://polarbearstale.blogspot.com/2009/11/erik-werenskiold-1855-1938-link.html Similar artists indeed.
tottaly reminds me of the anime series "monster"!!
Looks like the main inspiration for "Trollhunter".
Aeron, What a fantastic share, thank you. I also had an image on my computer for years and did not have a name for it. Planning on reading the wiki article you mentioned. Thanks much.
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