Gustaf Tenggren
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Swedish illustrator (1896-1970)
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It sits within the topics 1896 births, 1970 deaths and 20th-century American illustrators.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1896
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Fairy tales
- Tenggren's Golden Book Sagy Baggy Elephant & Tawny Scrawny Lion
- Grimms Märchenschatz
- The Poky Little Puppy (Big Picture Books)
- The Saggy Baggy Elephant
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Film & TV
Mariestad, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale 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 has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio were…
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gustaf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of death
- Southport
- Occupation
- animator
- Employer
- The Walt Disney Company
- Languages spoken
- French
- Official website
- www.gustaftenggren.com
- Image
- Gustaf Tenggren with children 1950.jpg
- Residence
- Lincoln County
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- date of birth
- 1896-11-03
- date of death
- 1970-04-09
- has works in the collection
- Nationalmuseum
- academic major
- visual arts
- Commons category
- Gustaf Tenggren
- start of work period
- 1916-01-01
- end of work period
- 1970-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Gustaf Tenggren
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