Next spring and summer, Nationalmuseum will be showing The Art of Exaggeration – Caricature in Sweden. The exhibition follows the development of Swedish caricature art through the ages, from the private sphere to a public position that echoes around the world. Recently caricature and cartoons have once again become the burning issue that they were two hundred years ago.
This spring’s big exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Passions, is all about emotion in art. Starting on 8 March, over 100 works depicting emotions such as sorrow, fear and joy will go on show. The artists represented include Dürer, Munch, Rembrandt, Tony Oursler, Rineke Dijkstra and Bill Viola.
At an ordinary public auction this past April, Nationalmuseum purchased a magnificent terracotta sculpture by French artist Claude Michel, known as Clodion. The piece, thought to date from the 1780s, depicts a satyr embracing a young nymph. Clodion’s superb attention to detail and perfect balancing of the two figures makes this one of his most significant works.
A centenary appeal launched earlier this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the Friends of Nationalmuseum has raised a total of SEK 10.66 million. The donations have funded the purchase of a painting by Flemish artist Nicolas Régnier, which was handed over to Nationalmuseum at a gala evening on 21 November.
The Nationalmuseum’s collection of applied art and modern design has gained an armchair, a table and candelabra from the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925. The acquisition is an important addition to the collections as several pieces from the period is missing.
European Silver 1500-1850 is the second volume in the series of catalogues of the Nationalmuseum’s extensive collections of applied art, design and industrial design.
This autumn’s major exhibition at Nationalmuseum, The Peredvizhniki – Pioneers of Russian Painting, opens on 29 September. Sweden’s first ever exhibition dedicated to this group of artists features over 100 pieces on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The collection of portrait miniatures at Nationalmuseum has been enriched with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The artist behind the portrait was the official court painter and the first grand name in English miniature painting, Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619).
This autumn’s major exhibition at Nationalmuseum, The Peredvizhniki – Pioneers of Russian Painting, opens on 29 September 2011. With around 100 pieces on loan from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, this will be Sweden’s largest ever exhibition of works by this group of artists.
The Four Seasons, a thematic exhibition of works from Nationalmuseum’s own collections, opens on 21 June. The exhibition focuses on depictions of the seasons in paintings of the fin de siècle period and on artists’ attempts to capture the essence of the changing seasons.
There’s plenty going on at Nationalmuseum this summer! Take your pick from exhibitions focused on eroticism in art, depictions of the seasons in fin de siècle Scandinavian painting, and shimmering silverware. Meanwhile, children can have fun learning about the gods and goddesses of antiquity.
Museum in a new light: Shimmering Silver 27 January 2011 – March 2012
The exhibition presents silverware from the 1550s to the present day and
the variety in silver as a material. The items are on show in both
daylight as well as artificial light to show the specific qualities that
silver has. The exhibition is part of the project Museum in a new light, which considers how Nationalmuseum’
