Olof Krans

Olof Krans was a SwedishAmerican folk artist. A selftaught artist, he painted in a style referred to as primitive or Nave art.

Olof Ersson was born in a small hamlet of Slja in Trnsj Parish in northern Uppland, Sweden. When Krans was twelve years old his family emigrated to the United States. The family arrived at the Bishop Hill Colony in Bishop Hill, Illinois during 1850. Bishop Hill was the site of a utopian religious community founded in 1846 by Swedish pietist Eric Janson and his followers. During the first two winters at the colony, Krans attended school and as he got older he was an ox boy and later worked in the black smith and paint shops.

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