Gustaf Tenggren

Birth : 1896-11-03, Mariestad, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Death : 1970-04-09

History

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 produced. -Wikipedia entry

Movies

The Ugly Duckling
The Ugly Duckling
Production Design
An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Art Direction
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.