New edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum

A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum is now available. It is the second part of Volume 26, which contains scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions in 2019. The publication is issued in digital format, and is made available free of charge – both to read online and for downloading.

Like the first part, the second part of Volume 26 that is now being published reflects a busy year of acquisitions in 2019, with content ranging from paintings by older masters to contemporary design. The articles are primarily written by the museum’s curators and researchers, but also by international colleagues and specialists. One of the articles describes the work of reopening the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum, which constitutes an important part of Nationalmuseum’s design collections. In the article Inventing the Landscape: The Origin of Outdoor Painting in Italy in the Early Nineteenth Century, Anna Ottani Cavina, Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Bologna, describes the breakthrough of plein air painting in 19th-century Italy. The text is based on the Tessin Lecture she gave at Nationalmuseum in the autumn of 2019. The issue also presents all the acquisitions made in 2019, often with a short commentary.

“Part Two of Volume 26 of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum shows that active acquisitions yield new perspectives, open windows to history and point to the future. It is particularly gratifying to see the works by female artists that have been incorporated into the collections. Just as important is the new fashion collection area, which was spotlighted by the exhibition of Sara Danius’ Nobel gowns designed by Pär Engsheden,” says Magnus Olausson, Head of Collections at Nationalmuseum.

Article authors: Micael Ernstell, Carina Fryklund, Helena Kåberg, Anders Lundin, Carl-Johan Olsson, Anna Ottani Cavina, Daniel Prytz, Cilla Robach och Ulrika Schaeder.

The Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum is a digital publication published in English, which highlights significant new acquisitions and presents articles on the history and theory of art related to Nationalmuseum's collections. The authors work primarily at Nationalmuseum. As a contribution to the efforts to promote Open Access and the free dissemination of scholarly and scientific information, it is published in a digital format and made available free of charge to read online and for downloading. https://www.nationalmuseum.se/art-bulletin-of-nationalmuseum-volume-262

It also uses the DiVA portal (Digital Scientific Archive) at Uppsala University as a publication platform: http://nationalmuseum.diva-portal.org

For further information
Hanna Tottmar, Head of Press, press@nationalmuseum.se, +46 (0)8 5195 4400