RhymingTherapy—September 2024 (my photos of murals covering the walls and ceilings of “The Cistern Chapel”—a public toilet block in Maryborough Australia. The final mural is a self portrait of the artist—Arkos Juhasz).
One of the most underrated Danish artist I have come across, is Kay Nielsen, 1886-1957.
Kay was the child of 2 Danish actors, and became an illustrator himself. Visiting Paris, London, New York and settling in Los Angeles, he tried to write about fairytales, mythology and anything in-between.
His style is reminisced of the jugendstilen, from which his works get a very unique and special touch. Personally, I relate him a lot to the Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano, 1951-, whose style gives the same dreamy feeling.
Nielsens works are mostly seen in books like East of The Sun - West of The Moon, however he also worked on the section in the Disney film Fantasia, involving Night on Bald Mountain. Properly most obscure, he also had some illustrations in erotic novels, that´s increasingly hard to find today.
Here´s a small pick for some of my favorite illustrations form this amazing, underrepresented artist. Read more about Kay Nielsen here: