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

nders Leonard Zorn

Paintings

A Musical Family

Castles in the Air

Sunday morning

Girl playing mandolin

The Embrace

After the Bath

A premiere

Coquelin Cadet

Fourteen years ...

Freja

Frieda Schiff

Helga

Hugo Reisinger

Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice

Loftsangen

Mona

Nude in Fire Light

Nude Under a Fir

Portrait of Lisen Lamm

Self Portrait in Red

The Painter Bruno Liljefors

The Port of Hamburg

Two friends

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Castles in the Air

Anders Zorn


Biography

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

From 1875–1880 Zorn studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. He 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. While his early works were often brilliant, luminous watercolors, by 1887 he had switched firmly to oils. Zorn painted portraits, scenes depicting rustic life and customs. Zorn is also famous for his nude paintings and realistic depictions of water.

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. His subjects included three American Presidents, one of whom was Grover Cleveland in 1899. At 29, he was made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair.[1]

Collection

His 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, is a museum dedicated to the works of Anders Zorn. It was designed by Ragnar Östberg and opened in 1939.

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 Collection. 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.[2]

Other major works

* Martha Dana (later Mrs. William Mercer) (1899) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [1]
* George Peabody Gardner (1899) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [2]
* Traveling companion (Mr. Charles Deering) (1904) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [3]


References

1. ^ Anders Zorn Anders Zorn(Artist in the Picture)http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Anders_Zorn/Biography/
2. ^ Anders Zorn, the Artist and Collector (by Peter Alsing. 2007-04-22)http://www.alsing.com/zorn_eng/index.html


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


Additional reading

* Asplund, Karl. Anders Zorn: His Life And Work (edited By Geoffrey Holme The Studio, Ltd. 1921)
* 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

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