Olof Sager-Nelson
Johan Olof Gudmund Sager-Nelson (born September 13, 1868 in Säffle , † April 10, 1896 in Biskra ) was a Swedish painter.
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Olof Sager-Nelson grew up with his grandmother and an aunt in Åmål after his mother died early and his father emigrated to America after a court ruling for embezzlement. There he also attended school. In 1885 he began to study engineering at the Chalmers Technical Institute in Gothenburg , but broke off these studies after two years and began to take lessons at the Valand Art School . His teachers were Bruno Liljefors and later Carl Larsson , who also arranged a travel grant for him.
In 1893 Sager-Nelson came to Paris , where, due to linguistic problems, he initially frequented the Swedish and Finnish artistic circles, through whose intermediary he got to know the current trends in contemporary art. 1894 was Sager-Nelson's most productive year, when he created the paintings for which he is known today, such as The Violin Player , Draw Brothers and The Student, as well as portraits of z. B. Charles Grolleau, A Young Poet , and Ivan Aguéli , Portrait of a Young Painter painted. With some of these pictures he also took part in the exhibition of the Swedish Konstnärsförbundet in Stockholm in 1894 , but the reviews were so devastating that from then on he only signed his pictures with Nelson due to a play on words with his double name. He spent the summers of 1894 and 1895 in Bruges , where he painted urban landscapes , inspired by Georges Rodenbach's novel Das tote Brugge .
In 1895 his tuberculosis , from which he had probably already suffered before he left for France, broke out, and he spent the rest of the time traveling, primarily in search of health relief. He died in 1896 in the Biskra oasis in Algeria .
Olof Sager-Nelson is u. a. represented with paintings in the Swedish National Museum , in the Thielska galleriet in Stockholm and in the Stockholm art museum Waldemarsudde .
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| SURNAME | Sager-Nelson, Olof |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nelson, Olof; Sager-Nelson, Johan Olof Gudmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Säffle |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1896 |
| Place of death | Biskra |