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Anders Zorn 1860 - 1920 |
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"Selfportrait 1915"
Oil on canvas - 90 x 58,5 cm
Zorn Collections, Mora |
"Selfportrait 1916"
Etching - 17,7 x 12 cm
(Reversed from painting) |
Anders
Zorn is one of Sweden's' internationally best known artists. His fame abroad
is founded mainly on his portraiture where he had the ability to capture the
character and the personality of the depicted person. Also his nude studies
are very famous, as are his genre pictures which mostly depict working
people where his swift and elegant impressionistic technique found its
fullest scope.
The international esteem Zorn received was not based only on his paintings
though. He was an exquisite etcher as well and also his graphic work, where
he is among the most talented of all times, is well-known with a very
special technique of more or less parallel lines across the plate, which was
counterpart of his rapid manner of painting.
Zorn made 289
etchings, a number of which are very well known. Zorn also
admired and collected the etched works of Rembrandt and considered him to be
his artistic forefather in this particular medium – but others have even
found them to be equals. |
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"Rosita Mauri" 1888
Water Colour, 102 x 70 cm
Zorn Collections, Mora |
"Rosita Mauri" 1889
Etching, 24 x 15,9 cm
(Reversed from painting) |
Anders Zorn was, in part, a
cosmopolitan. His insatiable passion for visual experiences led him all over
the civilized world. His versatile powers required a large audience. He
lived in England, France, Spain. He made seven trips to USA and painted
three presidents. The lust of his eye demanded an ever-changing
kaleidoscopic panorama. But at heart he was always a native Swede, and after
the restless, conquering years of his youth, which made him world famous, he
returned to his little home town Mora to spend the rest of his life. He died
on August 22, 1920.
Emma Zorn survived
her husband by 21 years. She died on January 4, 1942. To honour the memory
of her husband, she had worked to create a museum, which opened in 1939. She
completed the existing collection by re-purchasing a number of paintings
that he had sold and at the same time she continued the philanthropic work
that the Zorns had initiated together.
The Zorn Collections in Mora is the
administrator of Anders and Emma Zorn's donation to the Swedish State which
contains four museums: Zorngården, Zorn Museum, Zorn's Gammelgård &
Textilkammare and Zorn's Gopsmor. |
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