John Bauer Tarot Deck

John Bauer (1882-1918) was one of Sweden's most celebrated illustrators of the early twentieth century, known for paintings that brought Nordic fairy tales to life with a combination of tender warmth and quietly unsettling depth. His work was contemporary with Pamela Colman Smith and shares something of that same feeling of images drawn from deep within folk memory. The John Bauer Tarot gathers his distinctive artwork into a working tarot deck, carrying readers into a world where ancient forests, trolls, and children in embroidered cloaks stand alongside familiar archetypes.