John Bauer - De sprookjeswereld van John Bauer. Inleiding: Amy van Marken
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John Bauer - De sprookjeswereld van John Bauer. Inleiding: Amy van Marken - Rotterdam - Lemniscaat - 1976 - 1st edition - 192 pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 23 x 28,5 cm. - Design: Thomas Rosenberg.
Condition: Good - the dust jacket with some wear and (small) tears, small notition in pen by a former owner. Neat copy, now protected in acid-free mylar cover.
Dutch translation (by Marguérite Törnqvist) of John Bauers Sagovärld (1966); a collection of 21 Scandinavian stories (full of trolls, tomts, elves and gnomes), told by Elsa Beskow, Alfred Smedberg, Anna Wahlenberg, Helena Nyblom and Harald Östenson. Illustrated with beautiful COLOUR PLATES by the Swedish illustrator John Bauer (1882-1918). With foreword about the artist and list of illustrations.
HARDBACK FIRST EDITION (a second printing appeared in 1979).
¶ John Bauer's early work was heavily influenced by Carl Larsson and Albert Engström. Between 1907 and 1915, John Bauer illustrated fairy tales in 'Bland tomtar och troll', a book published annually at Christmas. His wife would often have acted as a model for the illustrations with a fairytale princess. At the age of 35, he and his wife and three-year-old son drowned on Lake Vätter when the ferry they were on capsized and sank. - Wikipedia.
