Sep 26, 2009

Posters by Swedish artist Wilhelm Kåge (1889–1960) at the National Library of Sweden. Kåge is better known for his later ceramic work, some of which can be seen here.
Via @assemblyman_eph.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Einar Nerman
Mar 19, 2009

left: No title or date; right: Joker from a playing card set (1924).
A recent post by Silent-Porn-Star draws my attention to Swedish illustrator and cartoonist Einar Nerman (1888–1983) whose work I don’t recall having come across before. There isn’t much available to see online unfortunately, a shame as SPS’s posting of a 1926 cigarette ad [...]
Nov 26, 2007

Previous posts about illustrators.
• Frans De Geetere’s illustrated Maldoror
• Jugend, 1897
• The art of Melchior Lechter, 1865–1937
• Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration
• Jugend, 1896
• Keim & Czeschka’s Nibelungen
• Les Papillons, métamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l’air
• Jugend Magazine revisited
• Heinrich Vogeler’s illustrated Wilde
• Peter Edwards times two
• Sinister silhouettes
• More science fiction covers
• The art of [...]