Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér
Swedish painter of Norse mythology
Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér 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 Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. 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 and died at Rome in February 1853. 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.
Artworks by this artist (11 total)
- Princess Eugénie 1846
- Nymphs 1835 - 1853
- The Triumph Of Galatea 1835 - 1853
- Johan Knutson 1840
- The Coronation Of Maria De’ Medici 1850
- The Mystical Marriage Of Saint Catherine 1850
- Freja Seeking Her Husband
- Bust Portrait Of A Black Man 1835 - 1853
- Bearded Man, Modelsketch 1835 - 1853
- Asgårdsreia, Sketch 1849
- The Water-Sprite and Ägir’s Daughters 1850