Nils Blommér

Nils Johan Olsson Blommér (1816–1853) was a Swedish painter.

Starting his career as an apprentice in Lund he experimented with painting portraits from the age of 20. He achieved some successes and in 1839 he had saved up enough money to move to Stockholm. There he took the name Blommér and enrolled in the Fria konsternas akademi. After winning the academy's prize several times he got a stipend in 1847 to travel abroad. He spent time in Paris but later moved to Italy, where he married his wife Edla Gustafva Jansson, also a painter, in November 1852. A few months later he caught a fatal chest disease.

Blommér's best known works are based on Norse mythology and folklore. They include Älfdrömmen, Sommarnattsdrömmen, Näcken och Ägirs döttrar, Brage och Iduna, Freja, Loke och Sigyn and Älfvor.

Gallery

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  Heimdal öfverlemnar till Freja smycket Bryfing

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  Ängsälvor ("meadow elves"), 1850

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  Brage och Iduna

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  Freja

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  Näcken och Ägirs döttrar

References

This article is based on the public domain Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon http://runeberg.org/sbh/a0109.html

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Name	Blommer, Nils
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Date of birth	1816
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Date of death	1853
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