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Anders Zorn

January 20, 2023

Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish painter. He attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist.[1][2] Among Zorn's portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. At the end of his life, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920.

Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn 1908
Born
Anders Leonard Zorn

(1860-02-18)18 February 1860
Mora, Sweden–Norway
Died22 August 1920(1920-08-22) (aged 60)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
EducationRoyal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm
Known forPainting
Sculpture
Printmaker in etching
SpouseEmma Lamm
Signature
Anders and Emma Zorn around 1885.
Reveil (Awakening), the artist's wife
Sommarnöje, 1886. Sweden's highest priced painting ever; sold for 26 million SEK on June 3, 2010.
Emma Zorn, reading, 1887

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.[2] Members of the Stockholm Society approached him with commissions. In early 1881, Zorn met Emma Lamm, whose background was quite different from his. Emma Lamm was from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. She was interested in art and culture and, after a long engagement, they were married in a civil ceremony in October 1885.

Zorn traveled extensively, to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the United States; he became an international success and one of the most highly regarded painters of his era.[1] 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.[1] His subjects included three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.

Honors

At the age of 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair.[4]

  • Portrait paintings
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    Mrs. Symons, 1886

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    Lady with fur cape, 1887

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    Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893

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    Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon, 1897

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    The King of Sweden, King Oscar II , 1898

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    Mr Henry Clay Pierce,[5] a noted financier and oil industry pioneer, 1899

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    Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, 1899

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    President Grover Cleveland, 1899

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    The Painter Bruno Liljefors, 1906

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    Hugo Reisinger holding a fashionable grey Homburg hat, 1907

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    The Queen consort of Sweden and Norway, Queen Sophia, 1909

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    William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, 1911

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    Ambassador David Jayne Hill, 1911

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    Mme Ashley, 1920

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    Mrs. Eben Richards, 1920

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's 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.[6][7]

Zorngården

In 1886, Anders Zorn and his wife, Emma, bought land close to Mora church and here they moved to 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, the Zorn combined smallholding, farmstead, and residence, 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 early years of the 20th century. With inspiration from English and Swedish architecture, it is today an excellent example of the architectural freedom that characterizes the years around 1900.

 
Anders Zorn's atelier at his house, Zorngården in Mora

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 some 40 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.[8]

  • Self Portraits
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    Self portrait, undated

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    Self portrait, 1882

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    Self Portrait with Model, 1896

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    Self Portrait with Hat 1907

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    Self Portrait with Fur, 1915

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    Self-portrait in red, 1915

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    Self Portrait with Faun and Nymph (before 1920)

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 noted for his nude paintings.[1] His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms Zornkulla or dalkulla, an unmarried woman or girl from Dalarna, as the women were called in the local dialect of the region where Zorn lived.

  • Nudes
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    Freya, 1901

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    Woman bathing at Sandhamn, 1906

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    Skärgårdsblomster (Archipelago flower), 1916

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    Woman in a boat, 1917

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    In the bedroom, 1918

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    Studio Idyll, 1918

The paintings have the freedom and energy of sketches, using warm and cool light and shade areas[1] with contrasting areas of warm and cool tones, and an understanding of color 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.

Zorn's palette

Zorn was known to use a basic color palette consisting of Lead White (Flake White), Yellow Ochre, Vermilion and Ivory Black. This limited color palette shows tremendous range in terms of color mixing. A large variety of tonal ranges are possible with this palette, a very important development for portrait painting. The color palette can also be used in still life and landscape painting under certain circumstances. The most striking aspect is that a kind of olive green color is possible to obtain by mixing Ivory Black and Yellow Ochre, as Ivory Black is bluish in nature.[9]

Other major works

Works

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "ART / 4 / 2DAY".
  2. ^ a b "Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter, National Academy Museum, New York – Review". Financial Times. 17 March 2014. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
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  4. ^ . Artinthepicture.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18.
  5. ^ Henry Clay Pierce December 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ [Bellman Prize 2012] (in Swedish). Swedish Academy. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
  7. ^ International Who's who in Poetry 2005. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1724. ISBN 0-203-32580-X.
  8. ^ Alsing, Peter (April 22, 2007). "Anders Zorn, the Artist and Collector". Alsing.com.
  9. ^ Harrison, Birge (1909). Landscape Painting. Scribner. p. 118. The expert cannot be bothered with useless pigments. He selects the few that are really essential and throws aside the rest as useless lumber. The distinguished Swedish artist, Zorn, uses but two colors—vermilion and yellow ochre; his two other pigments black and white, being the negation of color. With this palette, simple to the point of poverty, he nevertheless finds it possible to paint an immense variety of landscape and figure subjects.
  10. ^ . Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  11. ^ . Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
  12. ^ . Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2010-01-20.

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)
  • ArtGraphica biography

Further 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

External links

 
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anders, zorn, anders, leonard, zorn, february, 1860, august, 1920, swedish, painter, attained, international, success, painter, sculptor, etching, artist, among, zorn, portrait, subjects, include, king, oscar, sweden, three, american, presidents, grover, cleve. Anders Leonard Zorn 18 February 1860 22 August 1920 was a Swedish painter He attained international success as a painter sculptor and etching artist 1 2 Among Zorn s portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents Grover Cleveland William H Taft and Theodore Roosevelt At the end of his life he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920 Anders ZornAnders Zorn 1908BornAnders Leonard Zorn 1860 02 18 18 February 1860Mora Sweden NorwayDied22 August 1920 1920 08 22 aged 60 Stockholm SwedenNationalitySwedishEducationRoyal Swedish Academy of Arts StockholmKnown forPaintingSculpturePrintmaker in etchingSpouseEmma LammSignatureAnders and Emma Zorn around 1885 Reveil Awakening the artist s wife Sommarnoje 1886 Sweden s highest priced painting ever sold for 26 million SEK on June 3 2010 Emma Zorn reading 1887 Contents 1 Biography 2 Honors 3 Collection 4 Zorngarden 5 Paintings 6 Zorn s palette 7 Other major works 8 Works 9 See also 10 References 11 Other sources 12 Further reading 13 External linksBiography EditZorn 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 Enkoping From 1875 to 1880 Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm where he amazed his teachers with his talent 2 Members of the Stockholm Society approached him with commissions In early 1881 Zorn met Emma Lamm whose background was quite different from his Emma Lamm was from a wealthy Jewish merchant family She was interested in art and culture and after a long engagement they were married in a civil ceremony in October 1885 Zorn traveled extensively to London Paris the Balkans Spain Italy and the United States he became an international success and one of the most highly regarded painters of his era 1 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 1 His subjects included three American Presidents Grover Cleveland William H Taft and Theodore Roosevelt Honors EditAt the age of 29 he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair 4 Portrait paintings Mrs Symons 1886 Lady with fur cape 1887 Mrs Potter Palmer 1893 Mrs Walter Rathbone Bacon 1897 The King of Sweden King Oscar II 1898 Mr Henry Clay Pierce 5 a noted financier and oil industry pioneer 1899 Frances Cleveland wife of President Grover Cleveland 1899 President Grover Cleveland 1899 The Painter Bruno Liljefors 1906 Hugo Reisinger holding a fashionable grey Homburg hat 1907 The Queen consort of Sweden and Norway Queen Sophia 1909 William Howard Taft 27th President of the United States 1911 Ambassador David Jayne Hill 1911 Mme Ashley 1920 Mrs Eben Richards 1920Collection EditZorn 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 s Eve celebration Other museums holding major works by Zorn include the Musee 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 Alvdalen consist of four museums dedicated to the life and works of Anders Zorn The main museum Zornmuseet was designed by Ragnar Ostberg 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 Hillestrom 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 6 7 Zorngarden EditIn 1886 Anders Zorn and his wife Emma bought land close to Mora church and here they moved to 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 Zorngarden the Zorn combined smallholding farmstead and residence was completed in 1910 Zorngarden 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 early years of the 20th century With inspiration from English and Swedish architecture it is today an excellent example of the architectural freedom that characterizes the years around 1900 Anders Zorn s atelier at his house Zorngarden in Mora The main part of Zorngarden 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 Gammelgarden is in the southern part of Mora and consists of some 40 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 Alvdalen and is only open for visitors in July 8 Self Portraits Self portrait undated Self portrait 1882 Self Portrait with Model 1896 Self Portrait with Hat 1907 Self Portrait with Fur 1915 Self portrait in red 1915 Self Portrait with Faun and Nymph before 1920 Paintings EditWhile 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 noted for his nude paintings 1 His fondness of painting full figured women gave rise to the terms Zornkulla or dalkulla an unmarried woman or girl from Dalarna as the women were called in the local dialect of the region where Zorn lived Nudes Freya 1901 Woman bathing at Sandhamn 1906 Skargardsblomster Archipelago flower 1916 Woman in a boat 1917 In the bedroom 1918 Studio Idyll 1918The paintings have the freedom and energy of sketches using warm and cool light and shade areas 1 with contrasting areas of warm and cool tones and an understanding of color 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 Zorn s palette EditZorn was known to use a basic color palette consisting of Lead White Flake White Yellow Ochre Vermilion and Ivory Black This limited color palette shows tremendous range in terms of color mixing A large variety of tonal ranges are possible with this palette a very important development for portrait painting The color palette can also be used in still life and landscape painting under certain circumstances The most striking aspect is that a kind of olive green color is possible to obtain by mixing Ivory Black and Yellow Ochre as Ivory Black is bluish in nature 9 Other major works EditMartha Dana later Mrs William Mercer 1899 Museum of Fine Arts Boston 10 George Peabody Gardner 1899 Museum of Fine Arts Boston 11 A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramon Subercaseaux 1892 Private collection Traveling companion Mr Charles Deering 1904 Museum of Fine Arts Boston 12 Works Edit Castles in the Air 1885 Our Daily Bread 1886 Nationalmuseum Stockholm Man and boy in Algiers 1887 En premiar 1888 Outdoors 1888 Waltz 1891 A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramon Subercaseaux 1892 Omnibus I 1892 An Irish Girl 1894 National Gallery of Art Midsummer Dance 1897 Dalecarlian Girl Knitting Cabbage Margit 1901 Hins Anders fiddler or spelman 1904 Thiel Gallery A Musical Family 1905 Dance in Gopsmor 1906 Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath 1906 Ols Maria 1918See also EditBruno Liljefors Zorn CollectionsReferences Edit a b c d e ART 4 2DAY a b Anders Zorn Sweden s Master Painter National Academy Museum New York Review Financial Times 17 March 2014 Archived from the original on 2022 12 10 Retrieved 20 October 2022 Life of Anders Zorn Anders Zorn Artinthepicture com Archived from the original on 2011 07 18 Henry Clay Pierce Archived December 25 2013 at the Wayback Machine Bellmanpriset 2012 Bellman Prize 2012 in Swedish Swedish Academy Archived from the original on January 16 2013 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 Harrison Birge 1909 Landscape Painting Scribner p 118 The expert cannot be bothered with useless pigments He selects the few that are really essential and throws aside the rest as useless lumber The distinguished Swedish artist Zorn uses but two colors vermilion and yellow ochre his two other pigments black and white being the negation of color With this palette simple to the point of poverty he nevertheless finds it possible to paint an immense variety of landscape and figure subjects MFA Boston Collections Search Results Archived from the original on 2007 02 24 Retrieved 2010 01 20 MFA Boston Collections Search Results Archived from the original on 2007 02 24 Retrieved 2010 01 20 MFA Boston Collections Search Results Archived from the original on 2007 02 24 Retrieved 2010 01 20 Other sources EditBirnbaum Britta 1985 Paintings at Nationalmuseum Stockholm Nationalmuseum ISBN 91 7100 273 1 Lidbeck Sven 2007 Anders Zorn Etchings Catalogue Raisonne 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 ArtGraphica biographyFurther reading EditAsplund 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 EnglishExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anders Zorn Works by or about Anders Zorn at Internet Archive Zorn Collections Zorn Gallery in Stockholm Works by Anders Zorn at Project Gutenberg Listing of 289 Zorn prints with reference numbers and many with images at Artists Archive Zorngarden house Anders Zorn exhibition catalogs Anders Zorn Sweden s Master Painter at National Academy of Design 2014 Anders Zorn in the Gilded Age video trailer Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Anders Zorn amp oldid 1130949001, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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