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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 85,446 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jenny Nyström is the 1,275th most popular painter, the 476th most popular biography from Sweden and the 15th most popular Swedish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jenny Nyström ranks 1,275 out of 1,421Before her are Karl von Blaas, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Azim Azimzade, Nathan Altman, Josef Kriehuber, and Constant Permeke. After her are Alice Neel, Erró, Hieronymus Cock, Domenico di Bartolo, Mykola Pymonenko, and Bart van der Leck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jenny Nyström ranks 74Before her are José Canalejas, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Hermann von Struve, Arnošt Muka, and Cornelis Lely. After her are Jules Gilliéron, Maria Zankovetska, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Alexandru Macedonski, Johan Turi, and Joan Alcover. Among people deceased in 1946, Jenny Nyström ranks 127Before her are Louis Bachelier, Ioannis Rallis, Paul Lincke, Cesare Orsenigo, Victor Loret, and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf. After her are Moisei Ginzburg, Maximilian Steinberg, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Georg Åberg, and Safiya Zaghloul.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jenny Nyström ranks 476 out of 1,612Before her are Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Felix Hamrin (1875), Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870), Fanny Brate (1861), and Thomas Hammarberg (1942). After her are Petra Mede (1970), Ivar Jacobson (1939), Kent Andersson (1942), Gustaf Fröding (1860), Ingvar Wixell (1931), and Loreen (1983).

Among PAINTERS In Sweden

Among painters born in Sweden, Jenny Nyström ranks 15Before her are Ernst Josephson (1851), Mårten Eskil Winge (1825), Eva Bonnier (1857), Sigrid Hjertén (1885), Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859), and Fanny Brate (1861). After her are Gustaf Cederström (1845), August Malmström (1829), Bruno Liljefors (1860), Carl Fredrik Hill (1849), Anna Palm de Rosa (1859), and Nils Dardel (1888).