Biography
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
Filmography
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Movies 3
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Production Design
The Ugly Duckling (1939)
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Art Direction
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
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Known ForArt
Birthday1896-11-03
Deathday1970-04-09 (73 years old)
Birth PlaceMariestad, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
RelationshipsAnna Tenggren-Brink (1918-01-01 - 1927-01-01)
FatherAron Tenggren
CitizenshipsSweden, United States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles · New York · Lincoln County · Cleveland, United States of America, Gothenburg, Sweden
Also Known AsGustaf Adolf Tenggren
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