During the spring and summer of 2014, Nationalmuseum will present a photographic exhibition, Crossing Borders, at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. The exhibition will feature portraits of internationally celebrated Swedes who have challenged and crossed borders in a variety of ways.
During 2014 Nationalmuseum will have three exhibitions on show in the temporary venue at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to Hans Gedda & Masters of Darkness there will be an exhibition with masterpieces from the collections on show and one with Russian paintings co-produced with the Russian Museum.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a portrait of Alexander Roslin and his wife Marie Suzanne Giroust painted by the artist himself. The museum is delighted to have had the opportunity to acquire this unique and rarely shown work. The acquisition has been made possible by an extraordinary contribution from the Friends of Nationalmuseum.
In the spring and early summer of next year, Slow Art will be on show at the Swedish Institute in Paris. An international audience will now have the chance to see this exhibition of carefully crafted artifacts by Swedish artisans, which has already toured to various museums in Sweden. After Paris, the exhibition’s next stops will be Gävle and Jönköping.
The Swedish National Portrait Gallery has acquired a portrait of Dick Bengtsson taken by photographer Erik Cornelius.It forms part of a series of photographs taken for an exhibition of contemporary Swedish art in Paris in 1970. The artist is portrayed standing on the bank of the Voxnan river, surrounded by his works.
On November 9, one of the biggest ever international exhibitions of the works of Anders Zorn opens at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition is organized in association with Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, which is providing 10 key works by Zorn on loan from its collection.
Nationalmuseum and Swedavia have announced a joint project to exhibit art and design at Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Umeå Airport. In spring 2014, an exhibition of photographic portraits of internationally celebrated Swedes will open at Arlanda, creating an opportunity for travellers to enjoy a selection of artworks from Nationalmuseum’s collection.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre, creator of the French baroque garden. To mark the occasion, the Château de Versailles is staging an exhibition about this landscape architect and his work, which opens on 22 October. Nationalmuseum is loaning 27 drawings of gardens to the exhibition, most of them by Le Nôtre’s own hand.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a royal dining chair dating from 1754. The chair was made for the dining room of the Royal Palace in Stockholm at the time the royal family first took up residence there. The decoration on the back indicates that it was intended for one of the royal children.
On 5 December, an exhibition on the life and work of photographer Hans Gedda will open at Nationalmuseum. Close to 140 works will be on show in this retrospective covering the period from the 1950s to the present day. Gedda’s celebrated portraits of Angela Davis, Andy Warhol and Nelson Mandela will appear alongside famous Swedes such as Olof Palme, Birgit Nilsson and Jonas Gardell.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a work by Nils Andersson depicting a motif from Norse mythology. The painting was Andersson’s entry in the 1846 subject-painting competition organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. An evocative example of the images of ancient Swedish history painted in the mid-19th century, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the art world at that time.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a unique plate warmer dating from the early 18th century. Manufactured by Rudolf Wittkopf, it is Sweden’s only known surviving example in silver. The plate warmer is evidence of the prestige attached to French style by the Swedish upper class at that time.
