Swedish artist Nils Asplund was born in Eskilstuna 1874, died 14 June 1958 in Stockholm. Asplund was the son of the master builder Johan Gustav Asplund and Emilia Augusta Svalling. He studied at the Technical School in Stockholm 1891–94, at the Academy of Fine Arts 1894–98 and then with Julius Kronberg 1898–1900. He made study trips to Germany, Italy, Paris, London, the Netherlands and Belgium. Among his public decorations are altarpieces and ceiling decorations in the Hallwyl Palace in Stockholm 1897. He also painted a number of school posters published by P.A. Norstedt & Söner during the 1930s and 1940s. In the Metropolitan Palace's cinema "Lyran" in 1927, he painted 13 Pompeii-inspired figurative murals. Asplund is represented at, among others, the National Museum, the Hallwyl Museum in Stockholm, the Kalmar Art Museum and the Kalmar County Museum.
