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John Albert Bauer was a Swedish painter and illustrator. His work is concerned with landscape and mythology, but he also composed portraits. He is best known for his illustrations of early editions of Bland tomtar och troll, an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales.
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culture · Swedish painter and illustrator (1882–1918) · painter · illustrator · also John Bauer, John Bauer (illustrator), John Albert Bauer, Bauer
Born 4 June 1882 · Died 20 November 1918 · Q214043
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John Bauer – Illustrator of Folklore and Fairy Tales
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The picture again appeared in advertising, this time in a manipulated version in which all the trees had been cut down and Tuvstarr seemed to be lamenting them
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One of Bauer's gouaches, Humpe I trollskogen (Humpe in the Troll Forest), sold for 563,500 kronor (about US$87,000), and a watercolor, En riddare red fram (A Knight Rode Forth), made 551,250 kronor (c
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The picture again appeared in advertising, this time in a manipulated version in which all the trees had been cut down and Tuvstarr seemed to be lamenting them
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Sveriges Television produced and broadcast the movie Ester—om John Bauers wife (Ester—About John Bauers Wife)
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The Swedish postal service issued three stamps with motifs from Among Gnomes and Trolls
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Died 1918-11-20.
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Bauer put his thoughts about a divorce in a letter to his wife
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Is of Putte sleeping among troll-shaped roots in a forest
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His illustrations started to be influenced by the Italian Renaissance
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And the following year their son Bengt (called "Putte") was born
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Is one of Bauer's most noted works
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Was asked to do a fresco for the Odd Fellows lodge in Nyköping, Den helige Martin (Saint Martin, the Holy)
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When Bauer again was asked to illustrate the book, he made it clear to the publisher that he wanted to retain his pictures along with the copyrights after publication
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John and Ester traveled to Italy together; on their return they found a house, the "Villa Björkudden", situated on the shores of Lake Bunn just outside Gränna
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With eleven watercolors by Bauer
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Bauer was asked by the Åhlén & Åkerlund publishing house (now Bonnier Group) to illustrate their new series of books, Among Gnomes and Trolls
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(where he was one of eleven debutants) and in Norrköping in 1906, where it was sold to a private collector
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Traveled to Lappland to create paintings for a book on the culture of the county and its "exotic wilderness"
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And finalized them in an oil painting in 1905
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But since they were apart most of the time, this was done by mail
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Was one of the 40 applicants to study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and although he was deemed well qualified for a place at the academy, he was too young to be accepted
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Born 1882-06-04.
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Lived at the Villa Sjövik by the shore of Lake Rocksjön with his parents and two brothers, one older and one younger; his only sister died at a young age
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