Olof Sager-Nelson

Johan Olof Gudmund Sager-Nelson (13 September 1868, By Parish, Värmland - 11 April 1896, Biskra, Algeria) was a Swedish painter.

A few years after his mother's death, his father left him and fled to the United States after being convicted of embezzlement.

Thanks to a recommendation from Carl Larsson, he was introduced to Pontus Fürstenberg, a patron of the arts who provided him with financial assistance.

Later, he became associated with a group of Finnish Symbolist painters and formed a close friendship with Werner von Hausen [fi].

[3] It is suspected that Sager-Nelson appears in the autobiographical novel, Venus Anadyomene by Emil Kléen, under the name "Richard Walter".