PAINTER

Jenny Nyström

1854 - 1946

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Jenny Eugenia Nyström (13 or 15 June 1854 in Kalmar, Sweden – 17 January 1946 in Stockholm) was a painter and illustrator mainly known as the creator of the Swedish image of the jultomte on Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes and tomtar of Scandinavian folklore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jenny Nyström has received more than 93,439 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jenny Nyström is the 1,425th most popular painter (down from 1,274th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 475th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jenny Nyström ranks 1,425 out of 2,023. Before her are François Marius Granet, Adolphe Yvon, Ilya Glazunov, Carl Gustaf Pilo, Carl Fredrik Hill, and Pavel Chistyakov. After her are Gabriel François Doyen, Julien Dupré, Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Józef Chełmoński, Jan Theuninck, and Hermann Zapf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jenny Nyström ranks 77. Before her are Franz Rohr von Denta, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Maria Zankovetska, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Sergei Shchukin, and Johan Turi. After her are Jules Gilliéron, Cornelis Lely, Yehuda Pen, Joan Alcover, Nikolai Ruzsky, and Alexandru Macedonski. Among people deceased in 1946, Jenny Nyström ranks 142. Before her are Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Gualberto Villarroel, Józef Mehoffer, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, and Aleksandr Bogomolets. After her are Frederick W. Lanchester, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Raimu, Adriaan van Maanen, Charles Despiau, and Pantelis Karasevdas.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jenny Nyström ranks 537 out of 1,879. Before her are Lennart Bergelin (1925), Hans Alfredson (1931), Gunnar Eriksson (1921), Carl Fredrik Hill (1849), Henry Eriksson (1920), and Anders Jahan Retzius (1742). After her are Sune Andersson (1921), Anna Sundström (1785), Sonja Edström (1930), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), Harald Cramér (1893), and Inger Stevens (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In Sweden

Among painters born in Sweden, Jenny Nyström ranks 17. Before her are Eva Bonnier (1857), Fanny Brate (1861), Mårten Eskil Winge (1825), Sigrid Hjertén (1885), Ernst Josephson (1851), and Carl Fredrik Hill (1849). After her are Amalia Lindegren (1814), Gustaf Lundberg (1695), Anna Palm de Rosa (1859), Julia Beck (1853), Nils Dardel (1888), and Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859).

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