Kittelsen1 T-Shirt

Illustration from 1936 edition of Asbjørnsen & Moe: Samlede eventyr. Norske kunstneres billedutgave. Gyldendal Norsk forlag. Theodor Severin Kittelsen (April 27, 1857 – January 21, 1914) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls. Theodor Kittelsen and his family settled in a home and artist studio which he called Lauvlia near Prestfoss during 1899. Kittelsen spent his best artistic years here. During this period, Kittelsen was hired to illustrate Norwegian Folktales (Norwegian: Norske Folkeeventyr) by the Norwegian folklore collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. Black metal bands such as Burzum have used some of his pictures as album art, notably illustrations taken from Kittelsen's book Svartedauen (The Black Death).