The Tatler since 1922. The same year his caricatures were in The second minuet by English composer Maurice Besly, with foreword by British novelist Alec Waugh. In 1930, Nerman returned to Sweden and bought Hersbyholm, an 18th-century house in Lidingö. By then, he and his wife Kajsa Susanne had three children. During World War II the family relocated to New York City where Nerman was hired by the New York Journal-American to draw Hollywood stars like Joan Crawford and Alfred Hitchcock, among them Swedish friends Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman. In 1939 he published A trip to gingerbread land. In 1944 Nerman published Portraits by Nerman. In 1946 he published Caricature and illustrated Fairy Tales from the North, a collection of fairy tales from Denmark, Sweden and Norway by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. In 1950 Nerman returned to Lidingö where he became a member of the Association of Swedish Professional Illustrators and Graphic Designers. In 1964 he illustrated "The Goose Girl" by the Brothers Grimm. In 1969 he published The wedding in Valpköping and other animal tales. He died in 1983. Legacy Nerman acknowledged he was influenced during his youth by oriental artists, Norwegian artist Olaf Gulbransson, and Henri Matisse; later on also by Aubrey Beardsley and Ralph Barton. He made the illustrations for many of the books of Swedish Nobel Prize in Literature Selma Lagerlöf and earned a name in his country for designing all images behind the Solstickan matchbox. He also made many of the artistic book covers for his brother Birger's published writings and wrote songs and composed music to many of his brother Ture’s poems. In 2020 his portraits of Einar Jolin (1908), Isaac Grünewald (1907), Hanna Maria Sahlström in an interior (1911) were sold at auction. Gallery Notes Sources Einar Nerman: "Caricature", Holme Press Incorporated, 1946. Sandy Wilson: "Caught in the act", George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, Great Britain 1976. Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott: "How picturebooks work", Psychology Press, 2001, p. 60. Elina Druker, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: "Childrens books in the avant-garde", John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015, pp. 45, 49, 62 & 63. External links Cover Drawing of Greta Garbo by Einar Nerman ("Greta Garbos Saga", The first written biography about Greta Garbo – Stockholm 1929) Einar Nerman | Images Musicales Stories Einar Nerman ( 1888–1983) Einar Nerman's Beautifully Illustrated Sheet-Music Covers - Illustration Chronicles Einar Nerman Einar Nerman: from the picturebook page to the avant-garde