Like his fellow illustrator and predecessor on Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Elves and Trolls), John Bauer, Swedish-American illustrator Gustaf Tenggren doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, even among aficionados of Golden Age illustration.
Ironically, Tenggren is probably better known for his later, very different style, in which he illustrated The Poky Little Puppy, than for his marvelous dark forests full of trolls and heroes, in which he picked up where Bauer left off.
Hopefully, Tenggren’s level of recognition may change, as he is the focus of a new website and blog devoted to the artist, and maintained by Lars Emanuelsson. Perhaps more importantly, Emanuelson is at work on a new biography of Tenggren, due to be released next year.
The Tenggren website is an excellent resource on the artist, with a biography and a history of his several periods of illustration and movie production work, along with a gallery of images.
Unfortunately, the images in the gallery, though numerous, are small. For larger images, I’ll point to articles on the Animation Resources site that revives much of the now gone ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archives site (see links below).
For more, see my previous post on Gustaf Tenggren.
[Suggestion courtesy of: Bertil Saukkoriipi]










http://gustaftenggren.blogspot.se, new blog
Larger images:
Gustaf Tenggren’s Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Animation Resources
Tenggren’s D’Aulnoy, Good Dog and Winged Horse, Animation Resources
Gustaf Tenggren and the Genesis of the Golden Book Style, Animation Resources
Gustaf Tenggren Bio, Animation Resources
Other resources:
Illustrated bio on BPIB
Bio on Wikipedia
Disney backgrounds on one1more2time3 Animation Resources
Related posts:
Gustaf Tenggren
John Bauer
Thanks for the links and the informations. I like very much his work on Disney’s Pinocchio. Curious to see the book.