Didrik Möllerum, also Diedrich Möllerum, (1642 – ) was a Finnish painter. Möllerum may have been born in Denmark, then later moved to

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

. He initially studied as an apprentice under the painter

Jochim Neiman Jochim Neiman (1600-1673) was a German-born traveling painter who primarily worked in Finland. After being born in Germany, Neiman moved to Stockholm during Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden's reign, and trained as a painter there. A work boom for artist ...

. He primarily painted religious-themed works and

altarpiece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

s for church commissions. One of his early documented jobs was restoration work for the Turku Cathedral after a fire in 1681. He is also known to have done some painting for the church in Raahe (1691), and the pulpit and altarpiece painting for the church in

Tornio Tornio (; sv, Torneå; sme, Duortnus ; smn, Tuárnus) is a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. The municipality covers an area of , of which is ...

(1701). Möllerum also painted portraits of some of the church vicars. Much of his time was spent working and living in Ostrobothnia and Tornio.

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* 1642 births 1702 deaths Finnish male painters 17th-century Finnish painters 18th-century Finnish painters 18th-century male artists Danish emigrants Immigrants to Finland Finnish people of Danish descent {{Finland-painter-stub