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Biography
Johan Severin Nilsson (1846–1918) was a Swedish painter and photographer.
He was born in Halland in the south of Sweden. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1865–1871 and then under Léon Bonnat in Paris for three years.
Severin painted portraits, landscapes and genre pictures. A prolific artist, he participated in numerous exhibitions and left behind a large and diverse production of work. He was also one of the first Swedish documentary photographers. Inspired by Arthur Hazelius, he made photographic studies of public life, especially in the village Asige in Halland, where he was born.
Paintings
Farm Yard Idyll
In Daddy's Arms
Lillan in the Garden
The open-air Painter
Summer Landscape with Children
Little Halland Girl
Photographs
Horse cart in Asige
Two brothers fighting, Halland
