The first major exhibition in France of works by Carl Larsson opens at the Petit Palais in Paris on 7 March, with the majority of works on loan from Nationalmuseum. This exhibition is one of the initiatives to keep art from the collections on public view during renovation of the Nationalmuseum building.
Opening on 15 May, the Highlights exhibition will feature a selection of Nationalmuseum’s best-known and most popular works. Artists such as Paul Cézanne, Anders Zorn, Judith Leyster and Antoine Watteau will rub shoulders in the exhibition.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a painting by Nils Forsberg. The subject is an unusual one for this artist: a studio scene featuring his own son. In the foreground we can glimpse a green urn, believed to be identical to the urn by Nils Barck that is now in the museum’s collection.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a pewter-framed mirror designed by Björn Trägårdh in the 1930s when he was employed as a designer at Svenskt Tenn. The absence of any stamps indicates that the piece may be a prototype that never entered production.
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.
