Johan Christoffer Boklund

Johan Christoffer Boklund ( born May 17, 1817 in Kulla Gunnarstorp, careful, † December 9, 1880 in Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and representatives of the Munich school.

Boklund came as a 15 -year-old to Lund, where he worked on the design of illustrations to works of the scientist Sven Nilsson. He enrolled at the Art Academy in Copenhagen, where he was a pupil of Johann Ludwig Lund ( 1777-1867 ). 1837 moved Boklund to Stockholm and attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Along with fellow artist Johan Fredrik Höckert (1826-1866) spent Boklund 1846 eight years in Munich. The painting The nyfikne trumpetaren ( The curious trumpet player ), which he had sent to Sweden in 1853, earned him a handsome scholarship which enabled him to continue his journey to Paris. He worked there from 1854 to December 1855 in the studio of Thomas Couture before he returned home to Sweden.

Boklund received a teaching position at the Stockholm Art Academy and in 1856 appointed professor. On his initiative, formed in the same year the Stockholm Artists Club ( Konstnärsklubben ). At the same time he was until 1872 an art teacher for Karl XV. After 1861 Boklund belonged to a Commission on the establishment of the new National Museum and at the same time he was employed as manager of the former royal museum. His other responsibilities included the management of the Art Department of the National Museum ( 1866 ), the Organization of the Nordic Art Exhibition of 1866, the management of the collection of paintings by Karl XV. and directing the Academy of Fine Arts ( 1867 ). Due to the many administrative tasks Boklund had to live on the end of little time for his own artistic work and his health suffered.

Tomb of Johan Christoffer Boklund at the cemetery in Solna