Hans Zorn

Anders Zorn Paintings, High Quality

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A large collection of beautiful Anders Zorn paintings. Zorn loved the female form and often painted women in nature and the rural folklife in Dalarna, Sweden. His paintings have a romantic naturalism and soft, dreamy beauty. Anders Zorn was also a very sought-after portrait painter, skilled at capturing on canvas the character as well as looks of his models, who almost seem ready to come to life and climb out of the portrait at any moment. Music: Edward Elgar Enigma Variations No. 8 (W.N.), 9 (Nimrod) and 10 (Dorabella). 'Anders Leonard Zorn (February 18, 1860 -- August 22, 1920) was one of Sweden's foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. Zorn was born in Yvraden, a hamlet in the village of Utmeland in the parish of Mora, Dalarna, and was raised on his grandparents' farm in Yvraden. He studied at the age of twelve in the school at Mora Strand before progressing during the autumn of 1872 to a secondary grammar school in Enköping. From 1875--1880 Zorn studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. While his early works were often brilliant, luminous watercolors, by 1887 he had switched firmly to oils. Zorn painted portraits and scenes depicting rustic life and customs. Zorn is also famous for his nude paintings and realistic depictions of water. 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. His subjects included three American Presidents; Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. At 29, he was made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair. Some of his most important works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Nationalmuseum) in Stockholm. Among them is Midsummer Dance, a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer 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 (Zornsamlingarna) located in Mora, is a museum dedicated to the works of Anders Zorn. In 1886, Anders Zorn and his wife Emma, had bought land close to Mora church and here they moved 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 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 turn of the century. With inspiration from English and Swedish architecture, it is today an excellent example of the architectural freedom that characterizes the years around 1900.' 'Anders Zorn föddes i Mora den 18 februari 1860. Hans mor hette Grudd Anna Andersdotter och kom från en småbrukarfamilj från Mora. Fadern var en tysk bryggare vid namn Leonard Zorn som modern träffat under en säsongs-anställning på ett bryggeri i Uppsala. Något äktenskap var inte på tal. Zorn växte istället upp med mamman och morföräldrarna i Utmeland by i Mora. År 1875 påbörjade Zorn sina studier vid Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna i Stockholm. Detta blev möjligt tack vare arvet efter hans far samt en mindre summa pengar från det tyska bryggerisällskapet i Stockholm. Zorn reste mycket efter 1881, huvudsakligen till England och Spanien. Han studerade bland annat rörelser och speglingar på vattenytan. I Madrid skapade han 1883 sitt verk Kärleksnymf som gav honom en plats bland världens stora konstnärer. De första åren som gift var mycket utvecklande för Zorn som konstnär. Hans akvarellmåleri nådde nu sin höjdpunkt med bilder som Törnsnåret och Sommarnöje. I slutet av 1880-talet började Zorn arbeta i den genre som alltmer skulle komma att bli hans kännetecken - naket i det fria. Vattnets rörelser och ljusets reflexer på vattenytan intresserade honom honom; nu komplicerade han motivet genom att placera en modell vid eller i vattnet och skildra en syntes mellan natur och människa. I målningar som Ute, En premiär och Les Baigneuses, tillför han det klassiska nakenmåleriet en ny sinnlighet. År 1896 flyttade makarna Zorn hem till Sverige och Zorngården i Mora, som tidigare hade börjat byggas. Med detta följde ett ökat intresse för hembygden, vilket kom att speglas i Zorns måleri. Av konstnärens scener från Moratrakten, dess allmoge och urgamla traditioner var Midsommardansen den målning som Zorn värderade högst. Till hans mest kända genremålningar hör Vallkulla, Dans i Gopsmorstugan och Julotta.