Artist · Sweden
“cartoonist”
1854
Kalmar
Sweden
artist
1946
Bromma parish
Jenny Nyström.
Sweden, 1854 to 1946
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.
Biodata
- Born
- 1854, Kalmar
- Died
- 1946, Bromma parish
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Work
- cartoonist, artist, illustrator, painter
Jenny Nyström, in numbers
Sketchbook