from 'Blackie's Children's Annual', 1924
Elsa Beskow wrote the stories that I loved to read, filled with tomtar, troll, and älvor, that is gnomes, trolls, and elves--myths that had lingered from the times of Beowulf, creatures that lived in the dark woods of the North, flickering from behind mossy stones, hovering over fields in twilight, burrowing deep and disappearing fast in mists that thickened as the night lowered its black belly over the land. Tomtebobarnen, or Children of the Forest (1910) Beskow was a Swedish author and illustrator, known for her beloved children's stories. She received her education at the Tekniska skolans högre konstindustriella avdelning (Technical School for Higher Art) and became a teacher at the Whitlockska school from 1894 to 1879. In her lifetime, she wrote and illustrated over forty books, up until Röda bussen och gröna bilen (The Red Bus and the Green Car) in 1952, which was published the year before her passing. Beskow was known for her keen attention to detail, especially in plants and animals, as her stories often involved pint-sized heroes. Tiny royalty Olles skidfärd, or Olles Ski Trip (1907) "There was great confusion among the creatures of the forest the day they found a golden sphere in their path. What could this be? It was so beautiful it had to be an egg from the sun itself!" The Sun Egg She also illustrated several of Alice Tegner’s songbooks and drew the classic pictures now associated with Jeanna Oterdahl’s texts in Blommornas bok (The Book of Flowers); Mors lilla Olle, a Swedish nursery rhyme; the school songbook Nu ska vi sjunga (Now We Will Sing); and the ultimate school reader--which I myself read from--Vill du läsa? (Do you want to read?). Cover of Vill du läsa? Stories that we read in childhood stay with us forever. Long live the nursery rhyme, the fairy tale! Long live the high imagination that flings us up and out into far greater worlds!
Василий Ленивкин Ramzi Taskiran Robert Peake the Elder "Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662), later Queen of Bohemia" Andrzej Piecha Chong Wong От http://vasilyt.tumblr.com/ Elizabeth stares at Darcy’s portrait. Illustration by Anna and Elena Balbusso. Folio Society Editon: Pride and Prejudice by Jane…
Los troles son confusamente variados. ¿Qué son y qué les distingue?
Erich Heinemann / Wichtelhausen Märchenbuch Bilder: Fritz Baumgarten Carl Werner Verlag (Reichenbach i. V./Deutschland; 1946) ex libris MTP
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Fritz Baumgarten 18. August 1883 † 3. November 1966 Obwohl er als einer der produktivsten Bilderbuchkünstler Deutschlands gilt, ist über seine Biographie leider so gut wie nichts bekannt. Der bescheiden und zurückgezogen lebende Baumgarten hatte stets seine künstlerische Arbeit in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. Nach einer Ausbildung zum Lithografen studierte er an den Königlichen Akademien der Künste in Dresden und in München. Zunächst lebte er von Gelegenheitsarbeiten und der Gestaltung von Ansichtskarten, dann machte Fritz Baumgarten sich als Illustrator von Kinderbüchern einen Namen und gehörte schon bald zu den Großen des Fachs. Seine Zeichnungen bestechen durch Stimmung und Atmosphäre. Seine Szenerien sind prallvoll bevölkert von Wichteln, Zwergen, Mäuse- und Vogelfamilien, Fröschen und lebenden Teddybären. Liebevolle, detailversessene Bilder, in denen ich mich als Kind regelrecht verlieren konnte. Seine zeichnerische Fabulierlust kannte keine Grenzen. Zwischen den frühen 1920er Jahren und 1960 veröffentlichte er 500 Bilderbücher. Die über neunzig nach dem Krieg erschienenen Titel erreichten eine Auflage von insgesamt fast einer Million. Seine besten Bilderbücher gehören heute eindeutig zu den Klassikern und bieten weit mehr als nur ein nostalgisches Vergnügen. Seine Weihnachtsbilder sind nach wie vor etwa auch als Adventskalender beliebt. Seine Bücher sind Klassiker des Genres. Viele Bände sind auch heute noch in immer wieder neuen Auflagen erhältlich.
Milo Winter ~ This is MAB, The Mistress Fairy ~ 1918 ~ via The Pictorial Arts
I am including just a few examples of the illustrations in this “Book of Little Folk” collected, retold and illustrated by Lauren Mills since it is definitely UNDER COPYRIGHT, but I was enchanted with it and the various styles used by watercolorist Lauren Mills, and published by Dial Books. Lauren Mills Nolan copyrighted in 1997. The tales span the ages and the world. I was especially taken with Mills’ “note on the spelling of faery” -- In folklore the word faery, spelled with an e, usually encompasses all elves, gnomes, and other enchanted little folk, whereas the word fairy specifically refers to the diminutive winged faery, often female. I have used both spellings in this book to preserve this distinction, though I have kept the traditional spelling for ‘fairy tales‘--whether or not they include fairies. This note prompts me to change the name of my set “Not beautiful, but magical” to “Enchanted little folk of Faeryland.” There, that covers all the beautiful creatures that do not have wings! That set title always bothered me.
The summer is still clinging on. Today we had 20C / 68F - a great day. Just hope it will last over the weekend :)
