The main museum – Zornmuseet – was designed by Ragnar Östberg and opened in 1939. The Zorn Collections (Swedish: Zornsamlingarna) located in Mora and Garberg, Älvdalen, consist of four museums dedicated to the life and works of Anders Zorn.
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. Among them is Midsummer Dance (1897), a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer's Eve celebration. Some of his most important works can be seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Swedish: Nationalmuseum) in Stockholm. In their joint will, Anders and Emma Zorn donated their entire holdings to the Swedish State. The objects were not only bought in his native country but also during the many travels he made abroad. Zorn's art made him wealthy and he was thus able to build up a considerable collection of art. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.Īt the age of 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World Fair. His subjects included three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. 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. Zorn traveled extensively, to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the United States he became an international success and one of the most highly regarded painters of his era. She was interested in art and culture and, after a long engagement, they were married in a civil ceremony in October 1885. Emma Lamm was from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. In early 1881, Zorn met Emma Lamm, whose background was quite different from his. Members of the Stockholm Society approached him with commissions. 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.įrom 1875 to 1880, Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he amazed his teachers with his talent. Zorn was born and raised on his grandparents' farm in Yvraden, a hamlet near the village of Utmeland in the parish of Mora, Dalarna. At the end of his life, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize in 1920. Among Zorn's portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American Presidents: Grover Cleveland, William H. He attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish painter.
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