Anders Zorn

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Anders Zorn (February 18, 1860 – August 22, 1920) was a Swedish painter and printmaker in etching.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Gallery 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Zorn was born in Mora, Dalarna. He studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden from 1875-1880. He became an international success as one of the most acclaimed portrait painters of his era. His sitters included three American Presidents, one of whom was Grover Cleveland in 1899. Zorn is also famous for his nude paintings and vivid depictions of water.

Some of his most important works can be seen at Nationalmuseum (National Museum of Fine Arts) in Stockholm. Among them is Midsummer Dance (1897), a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer Eve celebration. Other museums holding works by Zorn include the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Zorn Collections in Mora (Dalarna County, Sweden) is a museum dedicated to the works of Anders Zorn. It was designed by Ragnar Östberg and opened in 1939.

[edit] Gallery

Self portrait, 1882-03-08	Castles in the Air, 1885	The Port of Hamburg, 1891	A Toast in the Idun Society, 1892
Omnibus I, 1892 or 1895	After the Bath, 1895	Midsummer Dance, 1897	Mr Henry Clay Pierce, 1899
Dalecarlian Girl Knitting. Cabbage Margit, 1901	Freja, 1901	A Musical Family, 1905	Carl Fredrik Liljevalch, 1906
Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath, 1906	Dans i Gopsmor, 1906	The Painter Bruno Liljefors, 1906	Self-portrait in red, 1915
Home Tunes, 1920

[edit] References

• Birnbaum, Britta (1985). Paintings at Nationalmuseum. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum. ISBN 91-7100-273-1
• Lidbeck, Sven (2007). "Anders Zorn Etchings - Catalogue Raisonné 2007". Stockholm: Zorn Gallery. ISBN 978-91-631-8962-3

[edit] External links

• Online gallery
• Zorn Collections
• "Anders Zorn", an essay by artist Robert Genn