John Albert Bauer was a Swedish painter and illustrator. His work is concerned with landscape and mythology, but he also composed portraits. He is best known for his illustrations of early editions of Bland tomtar och troll, an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales.
John Bauer with his signature
A young John Bauer
The Fairy Princess, 1904, oil sketch
Self-portrait, 1908, oil on canvas
Among Gnomes and Trolls, is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published since 1907. One of the most noted of the early illustrators is artist John Bauer.
Ännu sitter Tuvstarr kvar och ser ner i vattnet ("Still, Tuvstarr sits and gazes down into the water"), one of the most noted pictures by John Bauer from Among Gnomes and Trolls, 1913
"Oh my, What a little runt! exclaimed the Troll."- The boy who was never afraid, 1912
"She wandered alone for hours."–The Swan maiden, John Bauer 1908.
"Tjovik crept up onto the old troll's lap and stroked his beard."–The trolls and the gnome boy, John Bauer 1909.