Elsa Beskow in English

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2. Tant brun, tant grön, tant gredelin och farbror blå Elsa Beskow Aunt Green, Aunt Brown och Aunt Lavender

3. Elsa Beskow Elsa Beskow Elsa Beskow 11 February 1874 – 30 June 1953) was a famous Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender. Born in Stockholm her parents were businessman Bernt Maartman (1841–1889), whose family came from Bergen, Norway, and Augusta Fahlstedt (1850–1915). Beskow studied Art Education at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, then called Tekniska skolan, or the Technical school, in Stockholm.

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6. History History Elsa Beskow Elsa Beskow She married former minister and social worker, doctor of theology Natanael Beskow in 1897. Elsa Beskow met her future husband at Djursholms samskola while serving as a teacher where he served as head master. From 1900 they lived in Villa Ekeliden in Djursholm which had initially been built for the author Viktor Rydberg. They had six sons, including the artist Bo Beskow (1906–1989) and geologist Gunnar Beskow (1901–1991). In 1894 Beskow started to contribute to the children's magazine Jultomten. She ultimately began publishing her own books, doing both illustration and text. Overall, she would publish some forty books with her own text and images. Beskow frequently combined reality with elements from the fairy tale world. Children meet elves or goblins, and farm animals talk with people. Central themes were the relationships between children and adults and children's independent initiative. Her work "depicted a happy home atmosphere in the Swedish countryside of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

7. Went to private school Went to private school Elsa Beskow and her sisters attended a private school run by an aunt. Later she was taught at Whitlockska Samskolan, where Ellen Key was a teacher. Her schooling continued at the Technical School. She got her first job as an illustrator when she took courage and went up to the editorial staff of Svensk Läraretidnings Förlag, where the hard-working Amanda Hammarlund took care of, among other things, the Christmas magazines, and offered her services as an illustrator. This was the beginning of her long and successful career as a writer and illustrator.

8. Beskow Beskow one one of of the the most most well well knov knovn n Beskow became one of the most well known of all Swedish children's book artists. Many of her books became classics and are continually reprinted. Beskow also illustrated ABC books and songbooks for Swedish schools. Her book pages are often framed by decorative framework of the Art Nouveau style. Beskow received "international recognition for simple, cheerful stories and outstanding illustrations.

9. Lived in Viktor Rydberg's villa Lived in Viktor Rydberg's villa Around the same time, Elsa Beskow became engaged to Natanael Beskow, a theology student and aspiring artist. He had first asked her to be a model for him and soon afterwards wrote a letter of proposal. A couple of years later, they married and settled in Djursholm, where Viktor Rydberg's large villa became their home. They had six boys, of whom the geologist Gunnar Beskow and the artist Bo Beskow are the most famous. While her husband was active as a pastor with his own church and later as principal of Djursholm's joint school, Elsa Beskow cultivated her art through picture book creation and story writing. At home, it was not just the main responsibility of the children that rested on her shoulders. She also accounted for a very important part of the household income through her work, which she took care of with the children playing around her.

10. Villa Villa Ekeliden Ekeliden, Viktor Rydbergs Rydbergs house in house in Djursholm. , Viktor Djursholm.

11. Elsa Elsa Beskows Beskows Career Career life life Elsa Beskow made her debut in 1897 with The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman, an old nursery rhyme she had heard from her grandmother when she was little. The debut was followed by an impressive work of art and writing with almost 40 works. As early as 1901, she made her breakthrough with the rhyming story Putte's Adventures in the Blueberry Forest, which became a classic and was read to children throughout the 20th century. The story is about the little Putte who wants to arrange a name day gift for his mother and who gets help from the Blueberry King and his little helpers to pick the baskets full of lingonberries and blueberries. Among the other of her works are Olle's skiing, 1907, Tomtebobarnen, 1910, Hattstugan, 1930, and not least the series of five books that began with Tant Grön, Tant Brun and Tant Gredelin, 1918, and ended with Petters and Lottas Christmas, 1947. The books have become both a film and a TV series.

12. Elsa Beskow wrote many fairy tales Elsa Beskow wrote many fairy tales Elsa Beskow wrote several fairy tales that were published in several volumes. Based on her experiences, including as a drawing teacher at Whitlockska Samskolan 1894– 1897, she published the textbook Do you want to read together with Herman Siegvald? in three volumes 1935–1937. She also illustrated a handful of books with texts by others, such as Mother's Little Olle and other poems, 1903, by Alice Tegnér, but she preferred to work with her own ideas. She lived and worked at a time when a number of other female picture book creators also took over the children's book scene in Sweden, for example Nanna Bendixson, Jenny Nyström and Ottilia Adelborg. The inspiration came from English illustrators, such as Caldecott and Crane, and from Art Nouveau in general. Educational ideas about the view of children and their reading came not least from Germany

13. Died in Djursholm Stockholm Elsa Beskow died in Djursholm in 1953 and is buried in Djursholm's cemetery. Since 1958, the Swedish Public Library Association has been handing out the Elsa Beskow plaque to this year's most deserved children's book illustrator. Elsa Beskow drew illustrations for the magazine Santa Claus around the year 1900.