On Saturday, May 25th, this year’s Portrait of Honour will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle. This year’s Portrait of Honour is the professor and designer Ingegerd Råman and was created by the photographer Bruno Ehrs. He has depicted both Ingegerd Råman's artistic ideals and her field of activity as a designer.
Nationalmuseum has recently acquired an object by artist Ingalena Klenell in kiln-cast glass called There is a thread. Ingalena Klenell’s production in recent years has been characterised by suggestive, spatial installations based on impressions from the forested Nordic landscape.
This summer Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has a Danish theme with the exhibitions The Danish Golden Age and Finn Juhl: Architectural Furniture Designer. Nationalmuseum Jamtli shows Nordic turn-of-the-century art in From Dawn till Dusk and at Läckö Castle modern glass art from 1960 onwards will be on show.
The exhibition From Dawn till Dusk – Nordic Art Around the Turn of the Century 1900 opens at Nationalmuseum Jamtli in Östersund on 28 May. Around 130 works will be displayed, including artists like Eugène Jansson, Eva Bonnier, Helmer Osslund, Carl Wilhelmson, Elsa Beskow, Anders Zorn and Bruno Liljefors.
Nationalmuseum has acquired three English works by miniaturists Jeremiah Meyer, Ozias Humphry and John Cox Dillman Engleheart. The portraits in question are all examples of the blossoming of portrait miniatures as an art form from the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The acquisitions represent an important addition to the museum’s collection of portrait miniatures.
In the spring and summer of 2019, Nationalmuseum will mount an exhibition about the Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl. One of the most influential Scandinavian furniture designers of the 20th century will be presented through an exclusive selection of his furniture, artwork and crafts.
Nationalmuseum has acquired two 18th century portrait drawings. One is a self-portrait of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, while the other, by Johann-Ernst Heinsius, depicts an unknown woman. Both works are fully elaborated and demonstrate a technical virtuosity which captures both the personality and vitality of their subjects.
Nationalmuseum has recently acquired a so called “stabbestol” chair with large snow-laden branches build up the back. This unique chair was designed and carved by Knut Fjaestad and took seven years to manufacture and it was completed in 1914. The length of the process earned the chair its name, The Seven Years’ Throne.
The Danish Golden Age28 February - 21 July 2019
In the spring and summer Nationalmuseum will present The Danish Golden Age, an exhibition which comprises the very best of Danish painting from 1800 to 1864. In a joint production by Nationalmuseum, SMK, National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen and the Petit Palais City of Paris’ Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, it is one of the most ambitious analy
In the spring and summer of 2019, Nationalmuseum will present the exhibition The Danish Golden Age, which comprises the very best of Danish painting from 1800 to 1864. The exhibition includes more than 300 works and is a joint production by Nationalmuseum, SMK, National Gallery of Denmark and the Petit Palais City of Paris’ Museum of Fine Arts.
Nationalmuseum recently acquired a small painting by Hubert Robert that shows a view of the park in Méréville, probably executed in 1786-87. Robert has primarily become known for his picturesque vedute of Rome, often composed of a fantasized conglomeration of various famous ruins and monuments.
In conjunction with the reopening of Nationalmuseum, the association Nationalmusei Vänner has donated Uno Åhrén’s unique cabinet called The Garden of Eden, also known as The Paradise Cabinet. It was displayed in a ladies’ drawing room, or a boudoir, at the 1925 Paris Exhibition, that was furnished by the architect Uno Åhrén.
