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| - Tenggren was born in Magra, Sweden, on November 3, 1896, and spent his childhood with his grandfather Teng, as his father had immigrated to America. Teng was a decorative painter and woodcarver, and, acting as the boy's father, taught Tenggren how to paint and carve. In 1913, Tenggren received a scholarship to study painting at the arts school of Valand in Gothenburg. This scholarship ended in 1916.
- Gustaf Tenggren was born in 1896 in Magra Parish, south of Alingsås, Sweden. In 1913 he received a scholarship to study painting at Valand, the art school in Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenggren's early schooling and artistic influences were solidly grounded in Scandinavian techniques, motifs and myths; he worked with illustrating in the popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual Bland Tomtar och Troll ("Among Elves and Trolls"), where he succeeded illustrator John Bauer.
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| - Gustaf Tenggren was born in 1896 in Magra Parish, south of Alingsås, Sweden. In 1913 he received a scholarship to study painting at Valand, the art school in Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenggren's early schooling and artistic influences were solidly grounded in Scandinavian techniques, motifs and myths; he worked with illustrating in the popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual Bland Tomtar och Troll ("Among Elves and Trolls"), where he succeeded illustrator John Bauer. After his first exhibition in 1920, Tenggren left Sweden and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his sister lived, and in 1922 to New York City. By 1923, he was hard at work breaking into the American children's book market - the heyday of the grand illustrated books by illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Kay Nielsen. In 1923, Tenggren's work appeared e.g. in new releases of Tanglewood Tales and A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, as well as in The Christ Story for Boys and Girls by Abraham Rihbany.
- Tenggren was born in Magra, Sweden, on November 3, 1896, and spent his childhood with his grandfather Teng, as his father had immigrated to America. Teng was a decorative painter and woodcarver, and, acting as the boy's father, taught Tenggren how to paint and carve. In 1913, Tenggren received a scholarship to study painting at the arts school of Valand in Gothenburg. This scholarship ended in 1916.
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