Jewellery artist Märta Mattsson gets the Young Applied Artists award for her imaginative work taking diverse historical traditions in art jewellery to new dimensions. The award of SEK 100,000 from the Bengt Julin Fund, administered by the Friends of Nationalmuseum, is given out biennially. The ceremony will take place on 14 November at Nationalmuseum Design.
The latest edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum is now available. The academic journal in digital format is published annually in English by Nationalmuseum, free to read, download and share. This year’s edition, Volume 22, contains both scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions during 2015.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a sculpted portrait in terracotta created in 1891 by Ida Matton. The bust depicts a young woman wearing a dress typical of the period, with a high collar and puff sleeves. The slight movement of the head, the model’s relaxed style and her dreamy gaze create the impression of a fleeting, momentary portrait.
Nationalmuseum and the Louvre makes an exhibition about the Swedish count Carl Gustaf Tessin, opening in Paris 20 October. It comprises an exclusive selection of 120 paintings and drawings from Tessin’s own art collection, now owned by Nationalmuseum, that documents how artistic styles and tastes evolved in Paris at the height of the Rococo period.
Nationalmuseum is making 3,000 high-resolution images of its most popular artworks available for free download on Wikimedia Commons. Zoomable images will also be added to the museum’s online database. The digitization project is a major advance in making Nationalmuseum’s collections more accessible.
Light and stillness – Scandinavian art at the turn of the 20th century opens on Saturday 24 September at the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi. The exhibition comprises some of the best examples of Scandinavian painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, all on loan from Nationalmuseum.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a large, masterfully executed game still life dating from 1684 by the Dutch Baroque painter Jan Weenix. The canvas formerly belonged to the Swedish diplomat and collector Karl Bergsten and has now been reunited with those parts of his extensive art collection previously in the museum’s holdings.
On Friday 2 September, Embodied opens at Nationalmuseum Design, an exhibition of works that challenge the conventional notion of craft. The exhibiting artists share an interest in the corporeal, often related to social issues such as identity, body image, objectification, and power structures.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a portrait of John Panzio Tockson by the artist and courtier Fritz von Dardel. Unlike many of Dardel’s other, more caricatured and stereotypical portrayals of King Karl XV’s valet, this pen-and-watercolour drawing is an unusually vivid depiction of Tockson as an individual. In the portrait he is wearing his distinctive red, oriental-style costume with a fez.
Nationalmuseum has acquired an example of the egg-shaped easy chair Ovalia designed by Henrik Thor-Larsen. The chair was a huge hit when it was launched at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair in 1968. The acquired chair is an early example, dating from the late 1960s.
This autumn, Nationalmuseum Design presents Embodied, an exhibition of works that challenge the conventional notion of craft. The exhibiting artists share an interest in the corporeal, often related to social issues such as identity, body image, objectification, and power structures. These works exist at the interface of outer and inner, of skin and organs.
Thanks to a generous donation, Nationalmuseum has been successful in its bid to purchase and repatriate four woven tapestries manufactured at Beauvais. Commissioned in 1695 by Carl Piper for his residence in Stockholm’s old town, the wall hangings are still in fabulous condition after spending over a century in Denmark and the United States.
