#dancing fairies

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'Dancing Fairies' By: August Malmström (1866)

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Dancing Fairies by August Malmström (1866)

The Fairy Dance by Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1895)

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Fairies Dancing by a Waterfall, 1913 by Georg Janny(1913, watercolor on paper)

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Dancing Fairies (detail)

1866

Artist : August Malmström

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Baile de las hadas (August Malmström, 1866)

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Dancing Fairies (1866, oil on canvas) | August Malmström

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Dancing Fairies, 1866 by August Malmström.

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Those Sweet and Painful Memories, Danny Castillones Sillada//Dancing Fairies (1866) (details), August Malmström

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Dancing Fairies, August Malmström, 1866

This painting was created by August Malmström 6 years after he returned from Paris, France. During his stay in Paris, the painter studied under Thomas Couture, a French history painter.

After returning to Sweden, he began creating paintings which related to Swedish folklore, Nordic mythology, and portraits of proletariat Swedish people.

This specific painting was created in 1866, and illustrates two elves dancing across a river, over what seems to be a sunrise. In Swedish mythology, elves reside in mountains, forests, burial grounds and anything that is nature.

Therefore, in this painting he focuses on Swedish mythology regarding elves. However, this painting also illustrates his fluid and dynamic style of painting. More specifically, the elves are seen kissing the water, with their light emanating and flowing behind them.

This painting would go on to gain infamy and spread globally before Malmström died in 1901 in Sweden. Nowadays, his paintings are mostly found in private collections, although they also reside in some Nordic museums.

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August Malmström, Swedish National Museum

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Dancing Fairies, 1866, by August Malmström

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Twin Eagles of Hadur (The White Stag) written and illustrated by Kate Seredy

The Viking Press

New York

First Published November 1937

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dancing fairies (1866)

by august malmström

“on warm dark nights i think i see

beneath the weeping willow tree,

the fairies dancing in the grass

on tiny feet that fly so fast.

the music is the wind that blows

while fairies spin on bare tiptoes,

and fireflies jewel up the night

reflecting fairies in their light.

round and round the fairies dance!

on bitsy feet they skip and prance

through tiny dew drops to and fro,

til morning comes, and then they go.

i wonder where the fairies live

and do they know what fun they give

to little girls and boys that see

beneath the weeping willow tree?”

- dancing fairies by c.j. heck

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