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The Letter Print by Anders Zorn

The Letter

Our Daily Bread Print by Anders Zorn

Our Daily Bread

Castles in the Air Print by Anders Zorn

Castles in the Air

Mrs Weguelin and her Son Print by Anders Zorn

Mrs Weguelin and her Son

A Musical Family Print by Anders Zorn

A Musical Family

Lace-making in Venice Print by Anders Zorn

Lace-making in Venice

Sun in the forest Print by Anders Zorn

Sun in the forest

Hugo Reisinger Print by Anders Zorn

Hugo Reisinger

Motherly Happiness Print by Anders Zorn

Motherly Happiness

Girl from Mora Print by Anders Zorn

Girl from Mora

Spanish Lady from Madrid II Print by Anders Zorn

Spanish Lady from Madrid II

Carmen. Spanish woman in profile II Print by Anders Zorn

Carmen. Spanish woman in profile II

Man and boy in Algiers Print by Anders Zorn

Man and boy in Algiers

Fence Print by Anders Zorn

Fence

Sunday morning Print by Anders Zorn

Sunday morning

Evening Print by Anders Zorn

Evening

Red Stockings Print by Anders Zorn

Red Stockings

Girl playing mandolin Print by Anders Zorn

Girl playing mandolin

The Embrace Print by Anders Zorn

The Embrace

Mathilde Print by Anders Zorn

Mathilde

Portrait of Ambassador David Jayne Hill Print by Anders Zorn

Portrait of Ambassador David Jayne Hill

Franz Heiss Print by Anders Zorn

Franz Heiss

A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramon Subercaseaux Print by Anders Zorn

A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramon Subercaseaux

Mephisto. Consul Harald Johan Dahlander Print by Anders Zorn

Mephisto. Consul Harald Johan Dahlander

Jollen Print by Anders Zorn

Jollen

Landscape from Gopsmor Print by Anders Zorn

Landscape from Gopsmor

Female Figure Print by Anders Zorn

Female Figure

Vid badkaret Print by Anders Zorn

Vid badkaret

Reflection Print by Anders Zorn

Reflection

Sol i Skogen Print by Anders Zorn

Sol i Skogen

Banker Ludvig Arosenius Print by Anders Zorn

Banker Ludvig Arosenius

Head of Spanish girl, Sevilla Print by Anders Zorn

Head of Spanish girl, Sevilla

On The Bed Pa Sangkanten Print by Anders Zorn

On The Bed Pa Sangkanten

Portrait of Harald Bildt Print by Anders Zorn

Portrait of Harald Bildt

Red Sand Print by Anders Zorn

Red Sand

In Gopsmor Print by Anders Zorn

In Gopsmor

Potatiskitteln Print by Anders Zorn

Potatiskitteln

Midsummer Dance Print by Anders Zorn

Midsummer Dance

The Chamber Door Print by Anders Zorn

The Chamber Door

The Flea Print by Anders Zorn

The Flea

Dalecarlian Girl Knitting. Cabbage Margit Print by Anders Zorn

Dalecarlian Girl Knitting. Cabbage Margit

Bedouin Girl Print by Anders Zorn

Bedouin Girl

Study of a Nude Print by Anders Zorn

Study of a Nude

Summer Print by Anders Zorn

Summer

Sappo Print by Anders Zorn

Sappo

Maja von Heijne Print by Anders Zorn

Maja von Heijne

Paul Troubetzkoy I Print by Anders Zorn

Paul Troubetzkoy I

My Model and My Boat Print by Anders Zorn

My Model and My Boat

A Place to Wade Print by Anders Zorn

A Place to Wade

Bust Print by Anders Zorn

Bust

Rocks at Dalaro II Print by Anders Zorn

Rocks at Dalaro II

Alvan Print by Anders Zorn

Alvan

In the Artist's Studio Print by Anders Zorn

In the Artist's Studio

The Hinds Print by Anders Zorn

The Hinds

Marta Print by Anders Zorn

Marta

On the Beach Print by Anders Zorn

On the Beach

In the Skerries Print by Anders Zorn

In the Skerries

Bather Print by Anders Zorn

Bather

The Shadow Print by Anders Zorn

The Shadow

After the Bath Print by Anders Zorn

After the Bath

Summer evening Print by Anders Zorn

Summer evening

Reveil.Boulevard Clichy Print by Anders Zorn

Reveil.Boulevard Clichy

The Awakening Print by Anders Zorn

The Awakening

Wet Print by Anders Zorn

Wet

Nude in Fire Light Print by Anders Zorn

Nude in Fire Light

Dagmar Print by Anders Zorn

Dagmar

Ingeborg Print by Anders Zorn

Ingeborg

In the Bedroom Print by Anders Zorn

In the Bedroom

Margit Print by Anders Zorn

Margit

Early Print by Anders Zorn

Early

Study from the archipelago with two nudes Print by Anders Zorn

Study from the archipelago with two nudes

Anders Zorn

Girl playing mandolin

Anders Zorn

After the Bath

Anders Zorn

A premiere

Anders Zorn

Coquelin Cadet

Anders Zorn

Freja

Anders Zorn

Frieda Schiff

Anders Zorn

Helga

Anders Zorn

Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice

Anders Zorn

Loftsangen

Anders Zorn

Mona

Anders Zorn

Nude in Fire Light

Anders Zorn

Nude Under a Fir

Anders Zorn

Portrait of Lisen Lamm

Anders Zorn

Self Portrait in Red

Anders Zorn

The Painter Bruno Liljefors

Anders Zorn

The Port of Hamburg

Anders Zorn

Two friends

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The Chamber Door Print by Anders Zorn

The Chamber Door

Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was one of Sweden’s foremost artists. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching.[1][2]


Biography

Zorn was born and raised on his grandparents' farm in Yvraden, a hamlet near the village of Utmeland in the parish of Mora, Dalarna.[3] He studied until the age of twelve in the school at Mora Strand before progressing in the autumn of 1872 to a secondary grammar school in Enköping.

From 1875 to 1880 Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he amazed his teachers with his talent.[4] Members of Stockholm society approached him with commissions. This was how Zorn met his wife, Emma Lamm, early in 1881. Her background was different from Zorn's. Coming from a wealthy Jewish merchant family, she was interested in art and culture. Zorn traveled extensively to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the United States, becoming an international success as one of the most acclaimed painters of his era.[5] It was primarily his skill as a portrait painter that gained Zorn international acclaim based principally upon his incisive ability to depict the individual character of his model.[6] His subjects included three American Presidents, one of whom was Grover Cleveland in 1899, as well as his wife, along with William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. At 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair.[7]

Collection

Zorn's art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. The objects were not only bought in his native country but also during the many travels he made abroad. In their joint will, Anders and Emma Zorn donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State.

Some of his most important works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Swedish:Nationalmuseum) in Stockholm. Among them is Midsummer Dance (1897), a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer Eve celebration. Other museums holding major works by Zorn include the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Zorn Collections (Swedish:Zornsamlingarna) located in Mora and Garberg, Älvdalen, consist of four museums dedicated to the life and works of Anders Zorn. The main museum - Zornmuseet - was designed by Ragnar Östberg and opened in 1939. Shown there, are extensive works of Zorn and his collected art by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 'The Hovingham Master' (Poussin's follower), Bruno Liljefors, Albert Edelfelt, and Pehr Hilleström. The Bellman Prize (Bellmanpriset) is a literature prize for "an outstanding Swedish poet", every year awarded by the Swedish Academy. The prize was established by Anders Zorn and his wife Emma in 1920.[9][10]


Zorngården

In 1886, Anders Zorn and his wife Emma, had bought land close to Mora church and here they moved a cottage from his maternal grandfather's farm. When Anders and Emma Zorn decided to return to Sweden after several years abroad, they began to enlarge the cottage. Zorngården was completed in 1910.

Zorngården remains today much as it was at the time of Emma Zorn's death in 1942. It is a fine example of an artist's home from the turn of the century. With inspiration from English and Swedish architecture, it is today an excellent example of the architectural freedom that characterizes the years around 1900.

The main part of Zorngården consists of Zorn's home and a museum with his art, but there are two other museums that also are part of the Zorn Collections. Gammelgården is in the southern part of Mora and consists of 40-something timber houses that Zorn bought to make sure that the old art of building such houses would not be forgotten. Gopsmor, Zorn's refuge when under stress, is in the municipality of Älvdalen and is only open for visitors in July.[11]

Paintings

While his early works were often brilliant, luminous watercolors, by 1887 he had switched firmly to oils. Zorn was a prolific artist. He became an international success as one of the most acclaimed portrait painters of his era. His sitters included three American Presidents, nobility, the Swedish king and queen and numerous members of high society. Zorn also painted portraits of family members, friends, and self-portraits. Zorn is also famous for his nude paintings.[12] His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms Zorn's kulla or dalakulla, an unmarried woman or girl from Dalecarlia, as the women were called in the local dialect of the region Zorn lived.

The paintings have the freedom and energy of sketches, using warm and cool light and shade areas[13] with contrasting areas of warm and cool tones, and an understanding of colour contrasts and reflected lights. Zorn's accomplished use of the brush allows the forms and the texture of the painted subject to reflect and transmit light. In addition to portraits and nudes, Zorn excelled in realistic depictions of water, as well as scenes depicting rustic life and customs.


Other major works

Martha Dana (later Mrs. William Mercer) (1899) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
George Peabody Gardner (1899) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Traveling companion (Mr. Charles Deering) (1904) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


References

Biography
"Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter, National Academy Museum, New York – review". National Academy Museum, New York. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
Life of Anders Zorn
"Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter, National Academy Museum, New York – review". National Academy Museum, New York. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
Biography
Biography
"Anders Zorn". Artinthepicture.com.
Henry Clay Pierce
"Bellmanpriset 2012" [Bellman Prize 2012] (in Swedish). Swedish Academy. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
International Who's who in Poetry 2005. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1724. ISBN 0-203-32580-X.
Alsing, Peter (April 22, 2007). "Anders Zorn, the Artist and Collector". Alsing.com.
Biography

Biography

Other sources

Birnbaum, Britta (1985). Paintings at Nationalmuseum. (Stockholm: Nationalmuseum) ISBN 91-7100-273-1
Lidbeck, Sven (2007). Anders Zorn Etchings – Catalogue Raisonné 2007. (Stockholm: Zorn Gallery) ISBN 978-91-631-8962-3
"Anders Zorn in the Gilded Age", PBS biography (Colorado Public Television), one hour, 2013.
Oliver Tostmann, ed., Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America (Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2013)

Additional reading

Asplund, Karl. Anders Zorn: His Life And Work (edited By Geoffrey Holme The Studio, Ltd. 1921)
Facos, Michelle, Swedish Impressionism and Its Boston Champion: Anders Zorn and Mrs. Gardner (Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1993)
Facos, Michelle, “Anders Zorn and English Art,” The Nationalmuseum Bulletin (Spring 1994) vol. 18, no. 1: 58-67

Laurvik, John Nilsen Anders Zorn (F. Keppel. 1913)
Engstrom, Albert Anders Zorn (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag. 1928) Swedish
Boethius, Gerda Anders Zorn;: An international Swedish artist, his life and work (Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1962) Swedish
Hagans, William and Willow Zorn In America: A Swedish Impressionist of the Gilded Age (Swedish American Historical Society, 2009) English

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