John Bauer (illustrator)

John Bauer ( pronunciation: [ ˌ ʝɔ ː n bɑu̯əɹ ], born June 4, 1882 in Jonkoping, † November 20, 1918 on the Vättern ) was a Swedish artist, painter and illustrator.

Life

John Bauer was born in 1882 as the son of Bavarian butcher Joseph Bauer and his wife Emma. His father had emigrated from Bavaria to Sweden in 1863 and had his wife Emma Waddell know in Jönköping.

After farmer had applied in 1898 as 16 -year-old in vain for an education at the Art Academy in Stockholm - he was too young - he began an apprenticeship in Althins Målarskola, which had only been formed two years earlier by Caleb Althin. In the autumn of 1900, Bauer was finally adopted at the Art Academy. In the same year ester Ellquist began, six years later, Bauer's wife was her studies at the Art Academy.

Even as a student took Bauer repeatedly orders for illustrations. In 1907 he was commissioned to the fairy band number Bland Tomtar och troll to illustrate (sub elves and trolls ). The work on this farmer made ​​the most famous Swedish fairytale illustrator. The style of his drawings has been adopted by many subsequent illustrators, its characteristic representation of trolls can still be found in many fairy tales.

When a shipwreck in 1918 drowned farmer, his wife and three year old son Bengt on Lake Vättern in a ride on the canal boat Per Brahe.