The troll face peeking from the tree stump is by beloved Swedish artist and illustrator John Bauer. Born in 1882, the third of four children, Bauer left home at 16 for Stockholm, studying classical art at the Royal Academy of Art. In 1904, he was commissioned to do a book about Lappland and spent a summer following the Sami reindeer herders on their migrations.
Later he lived in southern Italy for two years and was struck by the beauty of 14th Century art and artifacts. His most famous work, the illustrations to the first of eight volumes of Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), a collection of fairy tales written by Swedish authors, was published in 1907. It was hugely successful.
(information from https://www.artpassions.net/bauer/bauer.html)
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