Jenny Nyström
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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 C
At work, painting at her desk
Christmas card with jultomte by Nyström, c. 1899
Hjorvard and Rolf Krake (1895)
Thora Borgarhjort (1895)
Nisse (folklore)
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A nisse, tomte, tomtenisse, or tonttu is a household spirit from Nordic folklore which has always been described as a small human-like creature wearing a red cap and gray clothing, doing house and sta
Jenny Nyström
…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. Her father…
A tomtenisse made of salt dough. A common Scandinavian Christmas decoration, 2004.
A nisse eating Christmas porridge. A beer stein beside it. ―Illustration by Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche.
A nisse as stable-boy. ―Illustration by Hans Gude. Asbjørnsen (1896) Norske Folke- og Huldre-Eventyr
Nisser on a windowsill