The exhibition "Transformations - Six Artists from Sweden" will open on Thursday 11 May at the Museo Palazzo Mocenigo, a Renaissance palace in the center of Venice. The six jewellery artists Tobias Alm, Sara Borgegård Älgå, Hanna Hedman, Catarina Hällzon, Agnes Larsson and Märta Mattsson, will contribute a total of 57 works to this exhibition which will coincide with the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Men, an exhibition of 49 photographic portraits by Dawid, opens at Gripsholm Castle on 20 May 2017. Most of the portraits are being exhibited for the first time. Dawid is not known for his portraits. Now, with the first full-scale exhibition of these works, visitors have the opportunity to discover a previously unknown aspect of his art.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a Rome cityscape painted in 1837 by German artist Eugen Napoleon Neureuther. Neureuther worked mainly in Munich but toured Italy in 1837–38. This depiction of the view from the bohemian quarter looking towards Monte Pincio dates from his time in Rome.
The burgeoning of design and fine craft in Finland from 1900 to the present day will be the theme of the closing exhibition at Nationalmuseum Design, Nationalmuseum’s temporary space for design-related exhibitions in Stockholm. The exhibition Hundred Years of Finnish Design - From the Rafaela & Kaj Forsblom Collection opens June 20.
Nationalmuseum has acquired an Onkel Adam armchair, a classic design by Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist, who made her name as a furniture and textile designer for Nordiska Kompaniet and other brands in the 1950s and 60s. Nationalmuseum did not acquire any of her works until 2000, but now another of her more significant creations has joined the museum’s collection.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a botanical watercolour study by Herman Saftleven from 1683. It depicts a sticky nightshade and was made on commission for Agnes Block, a passionate collector of exotic flora. Only 27 of Saftleven’s botanical studies are known today.
February 8, during Stockholm Design Week, the exhibition by and about Finnish interior designer Eero Aarnio opens at Nationalmuseum Design. Aarnio is one of the best-known figures internationally in the history of modern Finnish design with experimental designs and futuristic reinforced plastic chairs. A press preview will be held on 8 February at 10 am.
Nationalmuseum and The Morgan Library & Museum collaborates in the exhibition Treasures from Nationalmuseum of Sweden opening February 3. More than 75 masterpieces from the collection of Swedish count Carl Gustaf Tessin, now owned by Nationalmuseum, are brought to New York for a rare visit. The show includes works by artists such as Dürer, Raphael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Watteau and Boucher.
Nationalmuseum has acquired three landscape studies from Italy in oil by Pierre Henri de Valenciennes and Simon Denis. The works were hastily painted on paper on location, which was a novel approach in the late 18th century. This significant acquisition enables Nationalmuseum to better chart the beginnings of plein air painting in the 19th century.
Nationalmuseum has added several artefacts made from Swedish porphyry to its collection. The museum recently purchased a pair of magnificent Medici-style vases with Swedish royal provenance at auction in the United States. In addition, the museum has acquired a table clock in granitell and an interesting specimen collection of various types of Swedish porphyry.
During Stockholm Design Week 2017, an exhibition by and about Finnish interior designer Eero Aarnio will open at Nationalmuseum Design. Aarnio is one of the best-known figures internationally in the history of modern Finnish design. He made his name in the 1960s with his experimental designs and his futuristic reinforced plastic chairs.
Nationalmuseum has added no fewer than five works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg to its Danish art collection. Each of the works represents a different segment of Eckersberg’s artistic career: from his student years in Paris, via his artistic rebirth in Paris and Rome, to his firmly established but never stagnant later life in Copenhagen.
