Gustaf tenggren

Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 April 9, 1970) was a SwedishAmerican illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackhaminfluenced fairytale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what h

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Illustrateur de profession, Gustaf Tenggren eut une grande influence artistique sur les premiers longs métrages des Walt Disney Animation Studios. Walt Disney avait comme objectif à cette époque de donner vie aux contes de fée en s'inspirant principalement...

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Gustaf Tenggren Illustrator Born in Sweden 1896; died in America 1970 Early in his career Gustaf Tenggren was a popular advertising artist. He worked for Disney designing the look of Snow White and Pinocchio. Later his career was book illustration. His European influences are everywhere in his wonderful artwork. These examples are from The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1942. Click on the pictures for full-size images.

In yesterday's post I dwelt on the truly astonishing work that Gustav Tenggren created for two Disney masterpieces; "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Pinocchio". For "Pinocchio" which had an astonishing variety of scene changes and locales, Tenggren created dozens and dozens of paintings and drawings all invested with a Northern European sensibility that would have been hard to accomplish had the task been allocated to the locally sourced talents that were working at the studio. That…

Disney "Pinocchio" 1940 concept art of the blue fairy by Gustaf Tenggren

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