Black Death. Kittelsen T.

Black measure is one of the most terrible images of Norwegian folklore, the embodiment of the Great Plague, which fell into Norway in 1346–1353 and claimed almost two -thirds of the population. The outstanding Norwegian artist Theodore Kittelsen (1857–1914) devoted his most famous book “Black Death” - fifteen ballads with illustrations in which the plague appears in the image of a hunched old woman with a broom with a broom and a rake in his hands. “Black Death” is considered the pinnacle of the graphic work of Kittelsen and the masterpiece of the Norwegian book illustration.