Career
Starting his career as an apprentice in Lund he experimented with painting portraits from the age of 20. There he took the name Blommér and enrolled in the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. After winning the academy"s prize several times he got a stipend in 1847 to travel abroad.
A few months later he caught a fatal chest disease.
They include Älfdrömmen, Sommarnattsdrömmen, Näcken och Ägirs döttrar, Brage och Iduna, Freja, Loke och Sigyn and Älfvor.