oken naturalia copy 3 Design:Vit Kant

oken naturalia copy 3 Design:Vit KantPoster with an old fashioned scientific illustration Oken Naturalia created by the German naturalist Lorenz Oken. At the top of the picture it says SCHDLICHE GIFT PILZE which is German and means "Harmful and poisonous mushrooms". Below we see several different kinds of mushrooms, including different fly agarics, devil's mushrooms and stone morels. Oken was a German naturalist, philosopher and physician who was born Okenfuss, but adopted the name Oken

The wave probably represents a monster wave "okinami"

Artist: Christian Krohg | Created: 1893 | Publisher: National Museum for Art

determined and fearless

The painting was an illustration for the fairy tale "The boy who harnessed the troll for the sled" by Harald Östenson and was published in Between tomtar och troll in 1907

here wearing a white light coat and high-heeled shoes sitting on the rack of a bicycle

in contrast to contemporary "idyllic" animal painting

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the fearless

The ship was built in steel between 1865-1866 was built at Bergsund's Mekaniska Verkstad in Stockholm

we see two goblins standing and looking up at the sky in a snow-covered forest landscape

The painting depicts a forest landscape where we see two men standing and looking at the moon

meaning "excellent fruit"