Palle Nielsen (1920-2000) was a Danish graphic artist who worked with several media throughout his career: woodcuts, linocuts, etching, lithography, but also pen, paper and watercolour. He produced a large amount of black and white frames which mostly show isolated human figures portrayed in apocalyptic landscapes, empty cities or in the middle of dramatic actions. The contrasting surfaces and the invented architectures are rendered through the confrontation of different textures in an expressionist fashion.
Images via machinatorium
The first image (last in the list above) was the cover of my father Carl Henrik Svenstedt’s first novel, “Kriget: Anteckningar och Builder” (“The War: Notes and Images”), from 1965. It is a suite of metaphysical, Calvino-esque stories of military strategies put into practice by an ambitious ruler through the ages. Reissued recently in Swedish.
http://www.bokborsen.se/Carl-Henrik-Svenstedt/Kriget-Anteckningar-Och-Bilder/4935093/3325
http://chsvenstedt.blogspot.fr/
Hello Carl, we hope you are well.
Thanks a lot for the information. Your father’s book sounds very intruiguing, did they publish an English version, too?
Fosco