Johan Severin Nilsson (1846 -1918) Swedish painter Francis Goya / Summernight Dreams

Thank you all for viewing and comments! ✽ All the best! Johan Severin Nilsson (14 January 1846, Asige Parish, Halland - 24 November 1918, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and photographer. Biography His father was a blacksmith. In 1865, at the age of eighteen, he enrolled as a student at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm; graduating in 1871. While there, he and Ernst Josephson became good friends. In 1873, they went to Paris together. On the way, they paid a visit to the painter, Bengt Nordenberg in Düsseldorf and were influenced by the Düsseldorf School. In Paris, he studied under Léon Bonnat for three years. He also learned some photography. When he returned home, he obtained some photographic equipment and took his first pictures in Halland in 1875. He often worked “in parallel“, using both camera and brush. He was also one of the first Swedish documentary photographers. Inspired by Arthur Hazelius, he made photographic studies of pub