Gustaf Tenggren
Gustaf Tenggren ( born November 3, 1896 in Magra ( Västra Götaland County ); † April 6, 1970 in West Southport ) was a Swedish- American artist and illustrator, who worked at times for Walt Disney.
Life
Gustaf Adolf Tenggren was the second youngest of seven children of the couple Aron and Augusta Tenggren. Already Aron Tenggren was a painter. 1898 the family moved to Gårda in Gothenburg; Gustaf Tenggren, who had a close relationship with his grandfather, but spent the holidays in Magra, where he attended the first two classes of the school. Soon after moving to Gårda left Aron Tenggren the family and moved to the U.S. to seek work. Gustaf Tenggren had to contribute to the maintenance of the family from the age of eleven years. Among other things, he worked as an assistant to a lithographer. After his talent was discovered, in 1910 he received a scholarship that enabled him an education at the Slöjdföreningens skola in Gothenburg. During the day, however, he had continued to work. In 1914 he was awarded a second scholarship and moved to the Valands Konstskola. During this time he received a first illustration jobs. He also worked as a scene painter at Stora Teatern and painted portraits.
The publisher Erik Åkerlund hired Gustaf Tenggren 1918 as a successor to John Bauer. In the following eight years Tenggren illustrated ten volumes of Bland Tomtar och troll. His Little Red Riding Hood, a picture from the period around 1920, shows a blond curly, whistling to himself, Red Riding Hood, which crosses with research steps a dark forest, of which only the rhizomes and the lower parts of tree trunks can be seen. The link-type separation of foreground and background reminiscent of works by John Bauer.
During the time when Åkerlund Tenggren married his first wife, Anna Petersson, the sister of his best friend Rudolf Petersson. In 1920, Gustaf Tenggren and Anna embarked in Copenhagen on the brightness Olav to America. They reached New York in August 1920 and went on to Cleveland, Ohio. There already were two sisters of the signatory. Two years later she moved to New York. In the next few years Tenggren was known as an artist and earned a lot of money. In 1929 he moved to the country from Dutchess County, 1930 he married his second wife, who also came from Sweden. Her name was Malin or Mollie Froberg. By 1935, the couple lived in Rhinebeck on a farm, before it moved back to New York.
1935 Gustaf Tenggren got the offer to work as Artistic Director for the film Snow White at Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles. For nearly three years he worked on this task. The design of the interior in the dwarfs' house is well on his designs back as the premises of the Queen and the forest scenes in which shuns pursued Snow White. Other films in which he played a key role, were Bambi, The Ugly Duckling, Hiawatha and Fantasia, but especially Pinocchio. 1939 Tenggren left the Disney studios to devote himself to his own children's book series, The Tenggren books. The first volume of this series was The Tenggren Mother Goose. The books of the series contained in the common folk tales. At the same time, he created illustrations for children's books from the other hand. Tenggren worked for The Golden Press and produced a series of picture books, including the world's most widely printed images Poky Little Puppy book The.
1944 bought the couple Tenggren an estate at Dogfish Head, Southport, Maine. It was equipped with old Swedish furniture and Tenggrens home until his death on 6 April 1970. His widow survived him by twelve years. She left her husband at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 's artistic estate. He was integrated into the Kerlan Collection, one of the largest collections of children's literature in the world.
Monument
On 16 May 2008, a nine-meter high bronze Pinocchiofigur that Jim Dine had designed, erected to Tenggrens honors at the Allégatan in Borås.