Johan Otto Hesselbom

Johan Otto Hesselbom (13 July 1848 – 20 June 1913) was a Swedish artist.

Painter

Hesselbom studied as a young man at the Swedish Evangelical Mission, to become a preacher. In 1880 he transferred to the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, and in 1882 he joined the Baptist Union of Sweden. Hesselbom was also preacher who was known about his sermons on religious topics.

In the meantime 1888-95, he was educated at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, with Per Daniel Holm as a teacher. Hesselbom made his debut in 1897 as a landscape painter.

He painted View from Dalsland at Sunset (Utsikt i Dalsland vid solnedgången) in 1898, Alley in Moonlight (Allé i månsken) in 1900, Toward the Mountains (1903) and Foster Village (Fosterbygden) (1906). Hesselbom is considered one of the foremost landscape painters from Dalsland and he gained some international renown. He was awarded international prizes in Venice 1901, Budapest, Paris 1906 and Vienna, and his works are represented in international collections.

One of his most widely known paintings, Our land, our Homeland (Vårt land, vårt fosterland) was painted in 1902, is exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm.