Impressionism and the North
dal 24/9/2002 al 19/1/2003
Segnalato da
24/9/2002
Impressionism and the North
National Museum, Stockholm
For the first time, an exhibition shows the relationship between French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and art in the Nordic countries. There are many links between, mainly French, Impressionism and artists in the Nordic region.
This autumn, visitors to Nationalmuseum will be met by a bounty of artworks by
painters such as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh
as well as by Nordic artists such as Edvard Munch, Anders Zorn, Akseli
Gallen-Kallela and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen. These latter were all influenced
in different ways by contemporary French avant garde at the end of the 19th
century and several years on. For the first time, an exhibition shows the
relationship between French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and art in the
Nordic countries. There are many links between, mainly French, Impressionism and
artists in the Nordic region. The exhibition shows paintings done by Paul
Gauguin during his time in Copenhagen in the mid-1800s. In that same period,
Danish artist Theodor Philipsen was painting landscapes using a technique
obviously inspired by Gauguin's. Claude Monet spent the winter of 1895 in Norway
painting winter landscapes and making the acquaintance of Norwegian painter
Fritz Thaulow and Sweden's 'painter prince', Prince Eugen. Monet studied the
Nordic winter light and produced several series of paintings showing snowy
landscapes in changing light and weather. The exhibition has a number of these
works. At the time, the Norwegian Christian Krogh used a technique approximating
the sketchiness of Impressionism but the most consistently Impressionistic
painter in that period was his countryman Edvard Munch.
In Sweden, several artists in the 1880s were to approach Impressionism from
different angles, even if most of them adhered to French Realism. The landscapes
of Karl Nordström and Nils Kreuger, painted in sketch style and using bright
colours, would occasionally resemble the Impressionist manner. Closest was
perhaps Anders Zorn; in a series of paintings from around 1890, he captured
fleeting impressions of contemporary life using broad and sketchy brushwork. At
that time, Swedish painters Richard Bergh and Karl Nordström found inspiration
in Gauguin's later idiom.
Exhibition catalogue in Swedish and English.
Image: La Grenouillère, Claude Monet
Curator: Per Hedström, (+46-8)51 95 43 06,
Project Manager: Torsten Gunnarsson, (+46-8)51 95 43 03,
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Other exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Arts this autum:
Art needs room/Design needs room
14 june 2002-16 february 2003
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger - Royal Architect and Visionary
20 september 2002-6 january 2003
Master Drawings from 17th-century Bologna
31 october 2002-9 february 2003
Design 19002000
A permanent exhibition presenting the museum Applied Arts Collection from 1917
to today is on display.
The National Museum of Fine Arts is Sweden's largest museum of fine arts with a
comprehensive collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, applied arts
and design.
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