#danish illustrator

[enchantedbook]

Illustration by Henrik Larsen, (1860 - 1933)

[mote-historie]

Kay Nielsen, Scheherazade kneeling before the king, from Nielsen’s illustrations for A Thousand and One Nights, circa 1917 to 1919, published posthumously.

[i12bent]

Otto Frello (April 6, 1924 - 2015) was a Danish artist who began his career as an illustrator of non-fiction works and encyclopedias. At age 50 he decided he was done and started painting fantastic, surrealist scenes from Copenhagen and other urban and landscape settings, all with more than a twist of magical realism.

Frello was from Varde and many of his works are now housed in a museum there that carries his name.

Above: Kongens Nytorv, 1995-96 - oil on canvas

[thewondermentofillustration]

Lorenz Frölich - Illustrations for the fairy-tales by Hans Christian Andersen, 1871,  pen and ink Lorenz Frölich (1820 – 1908) was a Danish painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Frölich was particularly interested in Nordic sagas and the Danish landscape. He is best remembered most for his children's books which included illustrations of the fairy tales told by Hans Christian Andersen as well as Frölich's own books about his daughter Lily (or Edma).   Frölich was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and was the son of a wholesaler. He studied in Copenhagen under painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, in Dresden under fresco painter Eduard Julius Bendemann (1843-1846), and in Paris under historical painter Thomas Couture (1852-1853). Frölich was influenced in impressionism through friendships with Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Alfred Stevens. Frölich developed a close friendship with John Thomas Lundbye. They shared an interest in Nordic sagas and the Danish landscapes. The two travelled through Denmark together and worked collaboratively on illustrations. Frölich lived for many in Paris and Rome where he exhibited his works at the salons. He also travelled much through Europe, visiting Germany (1840-1844), Italy (1846-1851), Denmark (1854-57) and London (1870-1871). In 1855, he married Carolina Charlotta in de Betou. Their daughter, Edma Frølich (1859–1958), grew up to became an artist drawing portraits and painting still lives. In 1877, Frölich was appointed professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen.

[illustrationisart]

Kurt Ard (1925-)

[4eternal-life]

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

illus. by KAY NIELSEN (Danish 1886 – 1957) collection of 15 Norse folktales

from “The Three Princesses in the Blue Mountain”, 1914

© Le vagabond des étoiles

[i12bent]

Egon Mathiesen (July 25, 1907 - 1976) was an autodidact abstract artist who debuted at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling in 1932. In Denmark he is much better known for his numerous picture books for children, such as Mis med de Blå Øjne from 1949,

Above: Cyklist, 1960 - oil on canvas (Københavns Kunsthandel)

[i12bent]

Bjørn Wiinblad (Sept. 20, 1918 - 2006) was a famous Danish artist and designer. He loved working in ceramics, but also as a set designer for theater or within hotel and restaurant decor. His many, many everyday products are still found in millions of homes world wide (including ours!), and he has works in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as at MoMA in New York.

His style was very up-beat, almost anti-Scandinavian in its love of squiggles, happy faces and orientalist settings.

It was very appropriate that Wiinblad illustrated the hugely popular multi-volume version of Arabian Nights in Danish, 1968 (Steen Hasselbalchs forlag)…