The model of the 2021 Portrait of Honour is Carl Bildt, a politician and former prime minister of Sweden. The portrait has been painted by Bo Larsson in an illusionistic style that reflects in detail the subject’s wide-ranging interests.
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. It is the second part of Volume 27, which contains scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions in 2020.
Nationalmuseum has recently acquired several significant French figurative table clocks dating from the early 19th century. These were an obligatory feature of the interior decoration style that developed during the Empire period, adorning many a mantelpiece and console table
This summer, Nationalmuseum Jamtli presents Ideal and Reality – Nordic Nature, an exhibition showing how nature has been depicted in art and applied art through the ages. The exhibition features some 130 works, paintings, drawings, photographs and applied art, all drawn from Nationalmuseum’s collections.
During the summer you can see exhibitions produced by Nationalmuseum at tourist destinations throughout Sweden.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a painting by the German artist Ernst Ferdinand Oehme. Tyrolean Landscape with Naudersberg Castle, dating from 1847, represents an aspect of German Romanticism that was previously absent in the museum’s collection.
Over the past few years, Nationalmuseum has made a concerted effort to acquire more works by women sculptors. This acquisition drive was part of a wider project to gather knowledge and shed light on the Swedish women sculptors who were active at the turn of the 20th century.
The exhibition "What joy to be a sculptor!" presents Swedish women sculptors between 1880 to 1920. As part of a pan-Nordic project between museums and researchers, the exhibition brings some of these sculptors back into the spotlight.
On February 19 the exhibition From Dawn to Dusk opens at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. The exhibition’s 56 paintings, by the Nordic region’s leading artists of the late 19th century, include works by Vilhelm Hammershøi, Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, Carl Larsson, August Strindberg, Anders Zorn, and
Nationalmuseum has acquired Allegory of Sunday, a rediscovered work by the Danish-German artist Ditlev Blunck. This the first time the painting has changed ownership since it was produced in 1841.
This spring’s exhibition, Swedish Grace, presents art, design, film and fashion from the 1920s. It is a period of transition that laid the foundations of modern society and an era full of tensions across the artistic spectrum.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a landscape painting of the Forest of Fontainebleau by Théodore Rousseau, believed to date from the 1840s. Rousseau was one of the most headstrong and innovative members of the French school of artists who took their name from the village of Barbizon and are considered the forerunners of the Impressionists.
