The Water Sprite (Nøkken)

Date: 1904
Medium: drawing with pen and ink
Location: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Dimensions: 47,5 x 69,4 cm

Kittelsen painted picture The Water Sprite (Nøkken) in 1904. Prevailing color of this fine art print is yellow and its shape is landscape. Original size is 47,5 x 69,4 cm. This art piece is located in National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

One of the most famous Norwegian Expressionist artists, Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857-1914) was a landscape painter and illustrator of fairy tales and legends about trolls. He was born in Kragerø. Although at 11 he became an apprentice to a watchmaker, he attained an artistic education at the painting school in Oslo and at the Munich Academy. Some of his images were inspired by Arnold Böcklin, and the rest arose from his clear and vivid imagination, as in the image Princess Looking for Lice in the Head of a Troll. His paintings were used by many Scandinavian metal and folk metal bands for their albums. Despite the fact that his name was almost unknown in Europe, in Norway he was a highly honoured artist, for which he was knighted by King Olaf.