Louis Moe

Louis Moe (1857-1945) was a Norwegian-Danish painter , drawing , illustrator and writer . He was one of Scandinavia's most important book illustrator in the period before and around World War I , with a large manufacturing including picture and storybooks through a period of fifty years. Louis Moe held a very high professional level both character wise and narrative and was recognized throughout the Nordic region within the book , drawing and illustration art, as well as etching and lithography. He was also well known in the United States. His picture stories without text can be seen as precursors of the comics , and he has by some been called Denmark's Walt Disney.