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1854 Kalmar, Sweden - 1946 Stockholm, Sweden. Known for: Painting, illustration.
Jenny Eugenia Nyström (b. June 13 or June 15, 1854, Kalmar, Sweden; d. January 17, 1946, Stockholm) . She was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image... Read full biography
Jenny Eugenia Nyström (b. June 13 or June 15, 1854, Kalmar, Sweden; d. January 17, 1946, Stockholm) . She was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the Santa Claus on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish... Read full biography
Jenny Eugenia Nyström (b. June 13 or June 15, 1854, Kalmar, Sweden; d. January 17, 1946, Stockholm) . She was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the Santa Claus on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore. Her father was a school teacher and piano teacher, and also the cantor of the Kalmar Castle Church. When Jenny Nyström was eight years old, the... Read full biography
Jenny Eugenia Nyström (b. June 13 or June 15, 1854, Kalmar, Sweden; d. January 17, 1946, Stockholm) . She was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the Santa Claus on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore. Her father was a school teacher and piano teacher, and also the cantor of the Kalmar Castle Church. When Jenny Nyström was eight years old, the family moved to Gothenburg, where her father had found a better paying teaching job. In 1865 she started in the Gothenburg art school Göteborgs Musei-, Rit- och Målarskola, today known as Konsthögskolan Valand, and in 1873 she was admitted to the... Read full biography
Jenny Eugenia Nyström (b. June 13 or June 15, 1854, Kalmar, Sweden; d. January 17, 1946, Stockholm) . She was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the Santa Claus on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore. Her father was a school teacher and piano teacher, and also the cantor of the Kalmar Castle Church. When Jenny Nyström was eight years old, the family moved to Gothenburg, where her father had found a better paying teaching job. In 1865 she started in the Gothenburg art school Göteborgs Musei-, Rit- och Målarskola, today known as Konsthögskolan Valand, and in 1873 she was admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where she studied for eight years. Thanks to a scholarship, this was followed... Read full biography
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Jenny Eugenia Nyström (b. June 13 or June 15, 1854, Kalmar, Sweden; d. January 17, 1946, Stockholm)
She was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the Santa Claus on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore.
Her father was a school teacher and piano teacher, and also the cantor of the Kalmar Castle Church. When Jenny Nyström was eight years old, the family moved to Gothenburg, where her father had found a better paying teaching job. In 1865 she started in the Gothenburg art school Göteborgs Musei-, Rit- och Målarskola, today known as Konsthögskolan Valand, and in 1873 s...But wait, there's more...
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