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Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist.<ref name="safran-arts.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. At the end of his life in 1920, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize.
Family, education and travelsEdit
Zorn was born and raised on his grandparents' farm in Yvraden, a hamlet near the village of Utmeland in the parish of Mora, Dalarna.<ref>Life of Anders Zorn</ref> He studied until the age of twelve in the school at Mora Strand before progressing in the autumn of 1872 to a secondary grammar school in Enköping.
From 1875 to 1880, Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he amazed his teachers with his talent.<ref name="auto"/> Members of the Stockholm Society approached him with commissions. In early 1881, Zorn met Emma Lamm, whose background was quite different from his. Emma Lamm was from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. She was interested in art and culture and, after a long engagement, they were married in a civil ceremony in October 1885.
Zorn traveled extensively, to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy, and the United States. During the 1890s in Paris, he spent much time with the Finn Albert Edelfelt.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He became an international success and one of the most highly regarded painters of his era.<ref name="safran-arts.com"/> It was primarily his skill as a portrait painter that gained Zorn international acclaim, based principally upon his incisive ability to depict the individual character of his model.<ref name="safran-arts.com"/> His subjects included three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt.
HonorsEdit
At the age of 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Portrait paintings
- Anders Zorn - Mrs. Symons.jpg
Mrs. Symons, 1886
- Anders Zorn - Lady with fur cape 1887.jpg
Lady with fur cape, 1887
- Zorn Anders Mrs Potter Palmer.jpg
Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893
- Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg.jpg
Portrait Frieda Schiff, 1894, wife of Felix M. Warburg
- Virginia P. Bacon by Anders Zorn, 1897.jpg
Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon, 1897
- Oscar II of Sweden.jpg
The King of Sweden, King Oscar II , 1898
- Henry Clay Pierce by Anders Zorn, 1899.jpg
Mr Henry Clay Pierce,<ref>Henry Clay Pierce Template:Webarchive</ref> a noted financier and oil industry pioneer, 1899
- Zorn-Motstaende side Mrs Frances Cleveland.jpg
Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, 1899
- Anders Leonard Zorn - Grover Cleveland - Google Art Project.jpg
President Grover Cleveland, 1899
- Bruno Liljefors by Anders Zorn, 1906.jpg
The Painter Bruno Liljefors, 1906
- Anders Zorn - Hugo Reisinger.jpg
Hugo Reisinger holding a fashionable grey Homburg hat, 1907
- Anders Zorn - Drottning Sophia 1909.jpg
The Queen consort of Sweden and Norway, Queen Sophia, 1909
- Anders Zorn - Portrait of William Howard Taft (1911).jpg
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, 1911
- Ambassador David Jayne Hill by Anders Zorn (1860-1920).jpg
Ambassador David Jayne Hill, 1911
- Anders Zorn - Portrait de Mme Ashley.jpg
Mme Ashley, 1920
- Anders Zorn - Portrait of Mrs. Eben Richards.jpg
Mrs. Eben Richards, 1920
CollectionEdit
Zorn's art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. The objects were not only bought in his native country but also during the many travels he made abroad. In their joint will, Anders and Emma Zorn donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State.
Some of his most important works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Swedish: Nationalmuseum) in Stockholm. Among them is Midsummer Dance (1897), a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer's Eve celebration. Other museums holding major works by Zorn include the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Zorn Collections (Swedish: Zornsamlingarna) located in Mora and Garberg, Älvdalen, consist of four museums dedicated to the life and works of Anders Zorn. The main museum – Zornmuseet – was designed by Ragnar Östberg and opened in 1939. Shown there are extensive works of Zorn and his collected art by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 'The Hovingham Master' (Poussin's follower), Bruno Liljefors, Albert Edelfelt, and Pehr Hilleström.
The Bellman Prize (Bellmanpriset) is a literature prize for "an outstanding Swedish poet", every year awarded by the Swedish Academy. The prize was established by Anders Zorn and his wife Emma in 1920.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
ZorngårdenEdit
In 1886, Anders Zorn and his wife, Emma, bought land close to Mora church and here they moved to a cottage from his maternal grandfather's farm. When Anders and Emma Zorn decided to return to Sweden after several years abroad, they began to enlarge the cottage. Zorngården, the Zorn combined smallholding, farmstead, and residence, was completed in 1910.
Zorngården remains today much as it was at the time of Emma Zorn's death in 1942. It is a fine example of an artist's home from the early years of the 20th century. With inspiration from English and Swedish architecture, it is today an excellent example of the architectural freedom that characterizes the years around 1900.
The main part of Zorngården consists of Zorn's home and a museum with his art, but there are two other museums that also are part of the Zorn Collections. Gammelgården is in the southern part of Mora and consists of some 40 timber houses that Zorn bought to make sure that the old art of building such houses would not be forgotten. Gopsmor, Zorn's refuge when under stress, is in the municipality of Älvdalen and is only open for visitors in July.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Self Portraits
- Self Portrait by Anders Zorn.jpeg
Self portrait, undated
- Selfportrait (Anders Zorn) - Nationalmuseum - 24242.tif
Self portrait, 1882
- Självporträtt av Anders Zorn 1896.jpg
Self Portrait with Model, 1896
- Anders Zorn - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg
Self Portrait with Hat 1907
- Anders Zorn - Självporträtt i vargskinnspäls.jpg
Self Portrait with Fur, 1915
- Zornself.jpg
Self-portrait in red, 1915
- Anders Zorn - Self Portrait with Faun and Nymph.jpg
Self Portrait with Faun and Nymph (before 1920)
PaintingsEdit
While his early works were often watercolors, by 1887 he had switched firmly to oils. Zorn was a prolific artist. He became an international success as one of the most acclaimed portrait painters of his era. His sitters included three American Presidents, nobility, the Swedish king and queen, and numerous members of high society. Zorn also painted portraits of family members, friends, and self-portraits. Zorn is also noted for his nude paintings.<ref name="safran-arts.com"/> His fondness of painting full-figured women gave rise to the terms Zornkulla or dalkulla, an unmarried woman or girl from Dalarna, as the women were called in the local dialect of the region where Zorn lived.
- Nudes
- Freya (1901) by Anders Zorn.jpg
Freya, 1901
- ZORN på sandhamn.jpg
Woman bathing at Sandhamn, 1906
- Anders Zorn - Skärgårdsblomster.jpg
Skärgårdsblomster (Archipelago flower), 1916
- Anders Zorn I werners eka-1917.jpg
Woman in a boat, 1917
- Anders Zorn - I Sängkammaren.jpg
In the bedroom, 1918
- Anders Zorn - Ateljéidyll.jpg
Studio Idyll, 1918
PaletteEdit
Zorn was known to use a basic color palette consisting of Lead White (Flake White), Yellow Ochre, Vermilion, and Ivory Black. This limited color palette shows tremendous range in terms of color mixing. A large variety of tonal ranges is possible using this palette, a very important development for portrait painting. The color palette can also be used in still life and landscape painting under certain circumstances. The most striking aspect is that an olive greenish color is possible to obtain by mixing Ivory Black with Yellow Ochre, as Ivory Black is bluish in nature.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Other major worksEdit
- Martha Dana (later Mrs. William Mercer) (1899) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramón Subercaseaux (1892), Private collection
- Traveling companion (Mr. Charles Deering) (1904) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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WorksEdit
- Zorn19131.jpg
Castles in the Air, 1885
- Our Daily Bread (Anders Zorn) - Nationalmuseum - 24125.tif
Our Daily Bread, 1886, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
- Anders Zorn An Algerian man and boy looking across Bay of Algiers.jpg
Man and boy in Algiers, 1887
- Une premiere av Anders Zorn 1888.jpg
En premiär, 1888
- Outdoors (Anders Zorn) - Gothenburg Museum of Art - GKM 0256.tif
Outdoors, 1888
- The Tub by Anders Zorn 01.jpg
The Tub (1888)
- Zorn Anders Valsen.jpg
Waltz, 1891
- Anders Zorn - A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramon Subercasseaux.jpg
- Zorn123134.jpg
Omnibus I, 1892
- Anders Zorn, An Irish Girl, 1894, NGA 11339.jpg
An Irish Girl, 1894, National Gallery of Art
- Midsommardans.jpg
Midsummer Dance, 1897
- Stickande kulla av Anders Zorn 1901.jpg
Dalecarlian Girl Knitting. Cabbage Margit, 1901
- Anders Zorn - Hins Anders (1904).jpg
Hins Anders, fiddler or spelman, 1904 (Thiel Gallery)
- A Musical Family (Anders Zorn) - Nationalmuseum - 18954.tif
A Musical Family, 1905
- Överförd till Riksdagen, Dans i Gopsmor (Anders Zorn) - Nationalmuseum - 85527.tif
Dance in Gopsmor, 1906
- Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath (Anders Zorn) - Nationalmuseum - 18642.tif
Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath, 1906
- Anders Zorn - Ols Maria.JPG
Ols Maria, 1918
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
Other sourcesEdit
- Birnbaum, Britta (1985). Paintings at Nationalmuseum. (Stockholm: Nationalmuseum) Template:ISBN
- Lidbeck, Sven (2007). Anders Zorn Etchings – Catalogue Raisonné 2007. (Stockholm: Zorn Gallery) Template:ISBN
- "Anders Zorn in the Gilded Age", PBS biography (Colorado Public Television), one hour, 2013.
- Oliver Tostmann, ed., Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America (Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013)
- ArtGraphica biography
Further readingEdit
- Asplund, Karl. Anders Zorn: His Life And Work (edited By Geoffrey Holme The Studio, Ltd. 1921)
- Facos, Michelle, Swedish Impressionism and Its Boston Champion: Anders Zorn and Mrs. Gardner (Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1993)
- Facos, Michelle, “Anders Zorn and English Art,” The Nationalmuseum Bulletin (Spring 1994) vol. 18, no. 1: 58–67
- Laurvik, John Nilsen Anders Zorn (F. Keppel. 1913)
- Engstrom, Albert Anders Zorn (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag. 1928) Swedish
- Boethius, Gerda Anders Zorn;: An international Swedish artist, his life and work (Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1962) Swedish
- Hagans, William and Willow Zorn In America: A Swedish Impressionist of the Gilded Age (Swedish American Historical Society, 2009) English
External linksEdit
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- Zorn Collections
- Zorn Gallery in Stockholm
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- Listing of 289 Zorn prints with reference numbers and many with images at Artists Archive
- Zorngården house
- Anders Zorn exhibition catalogs
- Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter at National Academy of Design, 2014
- Anders Zorn in the Gilded Age video trailer