Jenny Eugenia Nyström 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.
At work, painting at her desk
Christmas card with jultomte by Nyström, c. 1899
Heoroweard and Hrólfr Kraki (1895)
Thora Borgarhjort (1895)
Kalmar is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 41.388 inhabitants in 2020 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of 236,399 inhabitants (2015). Kalmar is the third largest urban area in the province and cultural region of Småland.
Clockwise from top: aerial view of the Kalmar Cathedral, Kalmar Castle, the old water tower in central Kalmar, Öland Bridge and the water tower in Berga.
Kalmar Castle today
Kalmar Cathedral today
Engraving from Suecia antiqua et hodierna, circa 1700