Nationalmuseum has added a work by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Singry to its renowned collection of miniatures. With this masterful portrait of the actor Antoine Michaut, the artist was trying to compete with larger-format oil paintings. The acquisition is one of two known replicas and was formerly part of Ernst Holzscheiter’s collection.
A cabinet and two chairs designed by Carl Hörvik have been gifted to Nationalmuseum. These exclusive pieces in a pared-down classical style were exhibited in the Swedish pavilion at the 1925 World’s Fair in Paris as part of a suite of furniture that won the exhibition’s highest accolade.
This autumn, Nationalmuseum presents a major exhibition about the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, co-produced with the Musée Rodin, Paris, and the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki. Many of Rodin’s works have achieved iconic status. The exhibition is an opportunity to see some of the works of this legendary artist who changed the art of sculpture for all time.
This autumn, Nationalmuseum Design will present Domestic Futures, featuring examples of futuristic design with the potential to change the everyday life. In the exhibition designers speculate about the possible domestic life of the future. Examples include generating your own electricity, keeping self-grown organs in the fridge, and even owning an apartment on another planet.
Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Portrait of a Violinist is the latest addition to Nationalmuseum’s collection of 18th-century French painting. Considered one of the artist’s masterpieces, this genre work is believed to portray one of her sisters. Painted in 1773, three years after Vallayer was elected to the French academy of art, the work has many artistic virtues.
This summer Female Pioneers will be on show at Läckö Castle. The exhibition is produced by Nationalmuseum and features works by female pioneers of applied art and design. Among them are well-known names such as Tyra Lundgren, Anna Petrus and Estrid Ericson, as well as lesser-known artists such as Wilhelmina Wendt, Kitty von Otter och Sylvia Stave.
On 17 June, an exhibition with the title Glass is Tomorrow opens at Nationalmuseum Design, located inside Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. The result of an international project to highlight the potential of glass, the exhibition will feature around 200 glass pieces and prototypes co-created and produced in workshops held at various glassworks across Europe.
On Saturday 13 June, the 2015 Portrait of Honour will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle. The subject this year is Hédi Fried, the writer and psychologist, as portrayed by the photographer Sanna Sjöswärd. It is a subtle, insightful portrait of one of the last living Holocaust survivors.
Nationalmuseum has added a rug designed by Gustaf Fjaestad to its collection of 20th-century Swedish textiles. The rug, featuring a motif with the title Goshawk, was woven by the artist’s sisters, Anna and Amelie Fjaestad, in 1927. Gustaf Fjaestad, a member of the National Romantic school, was noted for his skill in combining acute observations of nature with ornamental design.
On 17 June, an exhibition with the title Glass is Tomorrow opens at Nationalmuseum Design, located inside Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. The result of an international project to highlight the potential of glass, the exhibition will feature around 200 glass pieces and prototypes co-created and produced in workshops held at various glassworks across Europe.
Nationalmuseum has acquired View of Vesuvius from Villa Quisisana, one of the few Italian landscapes by Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857) still in private hands. The newly acquired painting is an important document from a particularly significant period in Dahl’s life.
This summer’s exhibition at Nationalmuseum, 100 Great Paintings, will be a chance to revisit old favourites from the museum’s collection and to discover new ones. Exactly 100 paintings will be on show, with the emphasis on works from the late 19th century. To accompany the exhibition, Nationalmuseum is producing a lavishly illustrated catalogue and an app that serves as an audio guide.
