Theodor Kittelsen, drawing from 1892 by Christian Krohg. Christian Krohg ( August 13, 1852 &ndash October 16, 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter author and journalist

Kittelsen is known for his drawings of trolls. A troll is a fearsome member of a race of creatures from Norse mythology.

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (April 27, 1857 – January 21, 1914) was a Norwegian artist born in the coastal town of Kragerø in Norway. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Click here for Indian Rebellion of 1857 Year 1857 ( MDCCCLVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan is a town and municipality in the county of Telemark, Norway. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional He is famous for his nature paintings on the one hand, and on the other hand for his illustrations of fairytales and legends, especially of trolls. A troll is a fearsome member of a race of creatures from Norse mythology.

For a time, Kittelsen studied painting and watchmaking. When his talent was discovered by Diderich Maria Aall, he attended classes at the School of Art in Christiania (the present Oslo). (called Christiania from 1624 to 1878 and Kristiania from 1878 to 1924 is the Capital and largest city of Norway.

Because of generous financial support by Aall he was able to continue his study in Munich. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. However, in 1879 Diderich Aall could no longer manage to support him, so Kittelsen had to earn his money as a draughtsman for German papers and magazines. When back in Norway, he found nature to be a great inspiration. Kittelsen started to write texts to his drawings here.

In 1881, Kittelsen was hired to illustrate Norwegian fairy-tales by the Norwegian folklore collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885 was a Norwegian writer and scholar

His style could be classified between (Neo-)Romantic and naive painting. Romanticism is a complex artistic literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the As a national artist he is highly respected and well known in Norway, but doesn't receive much international attention, which is the reason that his name is hardly registered in registers of painters.

Black metal bands such as Burzum have used nearly all of his pictures as album art, notably illustrations taken from Kittelsen's book Svartedauen (The Black Death). Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Burzum is the musical project of Varg Vikernes (under the pseudonym "Count Grishnackh" The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest Pandemics in human history widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia

Paintings and drawings

Nøkken, 1887-92 (The Water Sprite)	Sjøtrollet, 1887 (The Sea Troll)	Røst, 1890 (From the Island Roest)	Det rusler og tusler rasler og tasler, 1900 (Creepy, Crawly, Rustling, Bustling)
Kornstaur i måneskinn, ca. 1900 (Stooks of Corn in Moonlight)	Skogtroll, 1906 (Forest Troll)	Hakkespett, 1912 (Woodpecker)	En uheldig bjørnejakt. (An Unfortunate Bear Hunt)
Illustration for Johan Herman Wessel's The Smith and the Baker

Illustrations for Svartedauen (The Black Death)

Fattigmannen, 1894-95 (The Pauper)

Pesta i trappen, 1896 (Plague on the Stairs)

Pesta Kommer, 1894-95 (Plague's Coming)

Musstad, 1896

Bibliography

Books illustrated by Theodor Kittelsen

• Fra Livet i de smaa Forholde I-II (1889-1890)
• Fra Lofoten I-II (1890-1891)
• Troldskab (1892)
• Glemmebogen (1892)
• "Har dyrene Sjæl?" (1894)
• Kludesamleren (1894)
• Im Thierstaate (1896)
• Ordsprog (1898)
• Svartedauen (1900)
• Billeder og Ord (1901)
• Folk og trold. Johan Herman Wessel ( October 6, 1742 - December 29, 1785) was a major name in Norwegian and Danish Literature Minder og drømme (1911)
• Soria Moria slot (1911)
• Løgn og forbandet digt (1912)
• "Heimskringla" (1914)

References

External links

• Comprehensive gallery
• The big size Kittelsen's illustrations (in Russian)
• Theodor Kittelsen's home in Sigdal, Norway (museum)
• Trollmoon - a site dedicated to the Scandinavian Troll in Art and Folklore incl. Kittelsen