Nils Bergslien

Nils Nilsen Bergslien (26 February 1853 – 18 December 1928) was a Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor.

Nils Berglien was inspired from the legends, the history of Norway and the west Norwegian mountain landscape.

He attended Morten Müller's art school in Kristiania from 1871 to 1872, 1873 and accompanied his uncle on a study trip to Germany and Austria.

During 1874 or 1875, he undertook a study tour in Telemark with Gerhard Munthe and 1880, he traveled with the sculptor Axel Ender and Danish poet Holger Drachmann over the Hardangervidda mountain plateau.

Nils Bergslien was known for his illustrations of folk life, his puck pictures, and for motives from legends and fairytales.

Monument to Nils Bergslien, and his uncles Brynjulf and Knud Bergslien at Bergslien Park in Voss
The Discovered Dance (1895)
Fossegrimen (1912)
Tyssedal Hotel