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John Bauer — Princess Tuvstarr Gazing Down Into The Dark Waters Of The Forest Tarn | Fantasy Illustration PrintJohn Bauer — Princess Tuvstarr Gazing Down Into The Dark Waters Of The Forest Tarn

Artist · 14 prints

John Bauer Prints

About John Bauer

John Bauer was a Swedish painter and illustrator, born in Jönköping on 4 June 1882. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1900 to 1905, and in 1906 married Ester Ellqvist, a fellow student. His life ended tragically on the night of 19–20 November 1918, when the steamer Per Brahe sank in a storm on Lake Vättern, drowning Bauer, Ester and their young son.

Bauer is best known for the trolls, gnomes and princesses he painted for Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), a Christmas anthology of Swedish fairy tales that he illustrated almost every year from 1907 to 1915. These books sold well and made him Sweden's best-known fairy-tale illustrator. Before that, in 1904, he spent a month in Lapland painting watercolours for a book about the region. The Jönköping County Museum holds more than a thousand of his works, the largest collection anywhere, and John Bauer still shapes how many people picture a Scandinavian fairy-tale forest.

John Bauer prints: reproductions of the Swedish fairy-tale illustrations John Bauer painted in the early 1900s, many for the Christmas annual Among Gnomes and Trolls. The collection includes The Princess and the Trolls, Brother St. Martin and the Three Trolls, Vill Vallareman (a Fairy Shepherd), Brownie by a Fireplace (1909) and Two Trolls (1909).

This selection focuses on his trolls and the people who meet them: princesses, shepherds, boys and old men in dark Swedish forests. The pictures are painted in muted greens, browns and greys, with tall trees, mossy ground and soft light. A few, such as Brownie by a Fireplace and Old Man Talking to a Boy, are indoor or quieter scenes.

The muted forest colours suit children's rooms, bedrooms, reading nooks and cabins, and a pair of troll scenes hangs well side by side. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.

Le jardin féerique, from Mother Goose — Maurice Ravel
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Princess Tuvstarr Gazing Down Into The Dark Waters Of The Forest Tarn by John Bauer — Princess Tuvstarr bows over the still black water of a forest tarn
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Skutt the Elk Watches Over Princess Tuvstarr by John Bauer — A great elk stands guard in the marsh as stars come out
John Bauer — Skutt the Elk Watches Over Princess Tuvstarr | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Skutt the Elk Carries Princess Tuvstarr Across the Marsh by John Bauer — An elk carries a small crowned rider under a crescent moon
John Bauer — Skutt the Elk Carries Princess Tuvstarr Across the Marsh | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Princess Tuvstarr, Small and Slim Like Cottongrass by John Bauer — A princess in white combs her long red-gold hair among flowers
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The Lake King Crowns Agneta by John Bauer — The lake king bends to lay a garland on Agneta's bonnet
John Bauer — The Lake King Crowns Agneta | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Agneta and the Lake King on the Floor of the Lake by John Bauer — Golden fish drift past Agneta on the floor of the lake
John Bauer — Agneta and the Lake King on the Floor of the Lake | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Agneta and the Lake King at the Water's Edge by John Bauer — A woman in a bonnet bends toward the silver-haired lake king
John Bauer — Agneta and the Lake King at the Water's Edge | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
The Princess and the Trolls by John Bauer — A girl in white walks between two shaggy trolls
John Bauer — The Princess and the Trolls | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Vill Vallareman (a Fairy Shepherd) by John Bauer — A shepherd blows a horn beneath a starry yellow sky
John Bauer — Vill Vallareman (a Fairy Shepherd) | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Brother St. Martin and the Three Trolls by John Bauer — A hooded figure faces three crouching trolls in a dark forest
John Bauer — Brother St. Martin and the Three Trolls | Fantasy Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Brownie by a Fireplace by John Bauer — An old brownie with a knee-length beard broods beside the hearth
John Bauer — Brownie by a Fireplace | Fairy Tale Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Old Man Talking to a Boy by John Bauer — A hunched old man and a barefoot boy talk under a vast sky
John Bauer — Old Man Talking to a Boy | Fairy Tale Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Brother Martin by John Bauer — A hooded monk raises a hand before a glowing hollow in the forest
John Bauer — Brother Martin | Fairy Tale Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Two Trolls by John Bauer — Two old trolls, one in a white shawl, bend beside a painted chest
John Bauer — Two Trolls | Fairy Tale Illustration Print Sale priceFrom $165.00