Jenny Nyström

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Jenny Nyström
Painter, illustrator, artist Edit this on Wikidata

Jenny Eugenia Nyström (13 or 15 June 1854 in

tomtar of Scandinavian folklore.[1]

Background

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.

She studied at the

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where she studied for eight years. Thanks to a scholarship, this was followed by studies in Paris 1882–1886, at Académie Colarossi and Académie Julian
.

Career

At work, painting at her desk

While in Paris, Nyström discovered the booming

S. A. Hedlund released it in 1871. The short Christmas tale for all ages was widely printed and has since become a Christmas classic in Sweden. Jenny Nyström eventually became Sweden's most productive painter and illustrator. For many years, her illustrations were distributed by Strålin & Persson AB in Falun
.

In 1887, at the age of 33, she married medical student Daniel Stoopendaal (1853-1927), brother of fellow artists Henrik Wilhelm Johan Stoopendaal (1846 - 1906), Ferdinand Jacob Stoopendaal (1850-), and Georg Vilhelm Stoopendaal (1866-1953). Due to tuberculosis Daniel was never able to finish his studies and take up his intended profession. It was instead up to Jenny to support herself, her husband and their son through her artistry, while Daniel handled her business affairs. He died in 1927.

jultomte
by Nyström, c. 1899

In 1933 her son, Curt Nyström Stoopendahl (1893-1965), followed in her footsteps and also became a popular postcard and poster artist, staying very close to his mother's artistic style. Even his signature, "Curt Nyström", looked like his mother's. Likewise, her brother-in-law, Georg Stoopendaal, already in the beginning of the 19th century found postcards to be a good source of income, unlike his more serious paintings, and his Christmas cards are also clearly inspired by Jenny Nyström's.

Santa Claus and Christmas

Nyström created the Swedish image of the

Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore
. [1]

Selected illustrations

  • Fornnordiska sagor, Albert Ulrik Bååth, author (1886) (early Norse tales)
  • Den poetiska Eddan, Nils Frederick Sander, author (1893) (the poetic Edda)
  • Barnkammarens Bok (Stockholm: Fahlcrantz & Co. 1903) (the nursery book)

See also

Gallery

References

  1. ^ a b "Jenny Nyström (Kalmar läns museum)". Archived from the original on 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
  2. ^ Jenny E Nyström-Stoopendaal, urn:sbl:8514, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Barbro Werkmäster), hämtad 2019-03-26.

Other sources

  • Forsberg Warringer, Gunnel Jenny Nyström: konstnärinna (1992)
  • Forsberg Warringer, Gunnel Jenny Nyström: målaren och illustratören (1996)

Further reading

External links

Media related to Jenny Nyström at Wikimedia Commons

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