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The works of art JJ01 - JJ 67 make up John Johnson’s donation. John Johnson was born in Naverstad in Bohuslän in 1861. He attended Uddevalla elementary school. Then moved to Gothenburg to engage in business activity, mainly wine trade. It was during this time that he acquired a considerable fortune. Between 1904 and 1928, Johnsons lived mainly in Stockholm with some shorter interruptions. From 1928, Villa Hemmet in Ulricehamn is the couple Johnson’s home. In 1885, John Johnson married Ingeborg Josefina Klemenson, born in 1859 in Fredrikstad. The couple got the sons John Arne and Reidar Ring. Already in 1932 Mrs Ingeborg died. John Johnson dies in November 1951. Most of the paintings he had collected since the 1890s acceded to Uddevalla city by will. See appendix. The transcript of a letter written by John Johnson to Sten (trol. Långström), one of his nieces, obtained as a copy on 2 June 2004 by the genus Gullberg (see UM027805): Ulricehamn, 3 June 34 Love Stone! Thank you for your triple bref along with Photography apprehends the beautiful taflan, which, however, does not is something for me with my relatively small rooms. I have managed to come to the öfver this year a whole some of which beautiful taflor inalles 11 Master, two very beautiful Fagerlin, Kilian Zoll en delightful interior, two Jernberg, the latest Mor and daughter an ingesting interior, a very large tafla af Kallenberg, a very beautiful aquarell af Egron Lundgren “The Girl at the Well,” a beautiful interior The Frenchman Tassaer m. fl. I have about so full of taflor that stands to apply without it looks like a Museum. I heard of your Mother a few days ago that they find themselves well at Hindås and that Kjerstin...... at Dig. Pre-sum now not then you are in a capital city like London to make acquaintance above all with old good art, hvaraf finnes a rich selection in London. Do you get success on the trajectory of your choice, so will probably be the time when you have the opportunity to to acquire a collection of your own, but the estate is knowledge judgement and taste, like you only can acquire by studium af real good art. I am allowed to thank you for your triple bref, who made me very much pleasure! With Hjertlige Intendations from your Toxic uncle John From the Minutes of the Uddevalla Museum 1942-1966 the following text is taken: ... Although the most important gift has not yet been received by the museum, it may be mentioned here, as the decision has fallen in the past year. It should be the most important event in the museum’s history. By will have f. The merchant John Johnson in Ulricehamn to the Uddevalla Museum donated a dedicated syllable collection, comprising an 80s work of art, old Dutch, 1700s art, early 1800s painter, düsseldorffare and 1880s realists. In due course, the Uddevalla Museum will be able to exhibit one of the country’s most rigid art collections. On 16 December 1944, Uddevalla City Council decided to receive with the utmost gratitude the large donation on the terms laid down by the donor. The donation has also stimulated the interest of the Verderbörande on the building issue in a way that raises hopes for a satisfactory solution in the not too distant future. ... Uddevalla, 26 April 1945 Sten Kristiansson Intendent Literature: “Catalogue of John Johnson’s donation Uddevalla museum,” Uddevalla 1972, Barnevik’s printing house, 2. Edition. The Catalogue compiled and edited by Nils Asp. Article in Bohusländer, Yearbook 1991, Uddevalla 1991, “The Johnson Collection at Bohusläns Museum,” Mimi Håkansson Bramfors. Bohusländer Konst, Bohusläns museum’s yearbook 1996, Uddevalla 1996. See the appendix marks: Article in Borås Newspaper of 5 August 2000, “The anger of the millionaire snuffed Ulricehamn at the masterpieces.” See the appendix marks: Article “The frame in fact,” Antik & Auktion 1/2005. Data in July 2008 from female accommodation in Bullaren: John (Johan) Johnson’s father was the merchant and innkeeper Alexander of Östad, Alexander Jonson, born in 1834 in Naverstad, died 1903 in Östad. The death classified as an accident. Although he died over 100 years ago, he talks about him as a great personality. The house owned by the Jonson family and operated as a guest giver today houses the local homestead museum, the Bullaren homestead association’s collections, named Old Gästis. The family’s business and residence was in another building next door. Alexander and his first wife Agneta Fredrika, a woman from the tract, had two children; John and Nora. The wife lived between 1838-1878. The daughter Nora, died in 1946, came to run the Lånsfors tourist hotel, northeast of Smeberg, into the 1930s. In Alexander Jonson’s second marriage to a Norwegian woman, Caroline Fredrikke Kristiansen or Karolina Fredrika (1848-1926), the couple had three children. The wife previously had four children. John Johnson seems to have regarded and talked about everyone as siblings, thus both the full-siblings and the half-siblings. Alexander Jonson shares the tomb with his two wives in the cemetery of Naverstad. John Johnson’s grandfather and grandmother were named Jon Thorson and Dordi Michelsdotter; they are buried in the same cemetery. The guest devil was driven on until 1927 by the stepdaughter Alma Olsén, whom Alexander “got part of” when he married Karolina Fredrika.