A brief biography on Kittelsen can be found on his Wikipedia page.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.
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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.
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/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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