'Ragnarok'.
Louis Moe was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and author, who spent a large part of his life and career in Denmark. He was naturalized as a Danish citizen in 1919. Born in Arendal, he studied with sculptor Julius Middelthun in Christiania, and later at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Moe provided illustrations to a great many children's books, fairytales and classical works. He was also a long-term illustrator to the children's magazine Magne and the weekly Norsk Ukeblad. Much of his work dealt with mythology and Nordic folktales, and the Norwegian Telemark county has been a large influence on his work (he owned a summer farm in Kviteseid). One of his most famous works is 'Ragnarok' (1929), an illustrated account of the Norwegian myth of the apocalypse. His other work includes illustrations for the fairy tales of Carl Ewald and picture stories about mythological creatures like trolls, fauns, sea kings and Santa Claus.
Illustration by Louis Moe.
Moe can be considered one of the founders of Norwegian comics. Not only because of his sometimes sequential artwork, but also because he was a mentor for Norwegian illustrator and comic pioneer Solveig Muren Sanden. In 1931, he was decorated as Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
From: 'Het Feest van Koning Beer' (Dutch edition, 1930).