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Lennart Nyblom
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Lennart Nyblom was born on September 15, 1872, in Uppsala, into a family where intellectual life was a given condition. His father, Carl Rupert Nyblom, was a poet and professor of literature and art history at Uppsala University; his mother, Helena Nyblom, was a celebrated storyteller and author. Growing up in that environment, surrounded by books, ideas, and the flat light of the Uppland countryside, shaped the kind of painter he would become: attentive to atmosphere, drawn to the quiet weight of ordinary landscapes.
He trained formally and methodically. First came Valand's painting school in Gothenburg (1891-1892), followed by the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, where he studied under Carl Larsson and Georg von Rosen from 1892 to 1896. He then spent two years in Italy and France (1896-1898), absorbing the light and compositional approaches of continental painting without abandoning his fundamentally Nordic sensibility.
Back in Sweden, Nyblom built a career as a landscape painter and draftsman, working in oil, watercolor, and etching. His motifs ranged from the open terrain around Uppsala to the canal-laced streets and building facades of Stockholm. One of his notable canvases, 'Fylgiahuset vid Nybroplan' (1920), captures a corner of central Stockholm with the specificity of a trained observer; the painting later passed through Stockholms Auktionsverk. Beyond easel work, he accepted several monumental commissions, including decorative painting for Östra realskolan in Gothenburg and Uppsala higher secondary school.
For several years he also worked as an art critic for Aftonbladet, a role that placed him within the broader Stockholm cultural conversation of the early twentieth century. In 1926 he took on an unusual assignment when he and his daughter worked briefly for Pukebergs glasbruk, producing hand-painted decorative glass - bowls, carafes, and bottles carrying mythological motifs - that now surface regularly at auction. His work is held in the permanent collections of Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde.
On the auction market, Nyblom's output divides clearly between paintings and the Pukeberg glass. Metropol accounts for the largest share of his auction appearances, with paintings such as 'Gårdshus - Uppsala' reaching 4,600 EUR. The Pukeberg glass bowls with mythological decoration sell in the 2,000-4,800 SEK range. His dual presence as painter and glass decorator gives collectors two distinct entry points into his work.