At Home Nationalmuseum’s summer exhibition

Nationalmuseum’s summer exhibition At Home – Scandinavian Interiors opened on 16 June. The exhibition shows how the home has been portrayed by some of Scandinavia’s best-loved artists during the 18^th and 19^th centuries. It is a series of seldom-seen works from the museums own collection. 

At Home – Scandinavian Interiors shows how the home was portrayed during the 18^th and 19^th centuries. At this time artists became increasingly interested in painting domestic scenes as the home took on greater importance in western culture. It was often depicted as a place for a variety of activities, such as reading, needlework and playing cards. In the 18^th century the social life of aristocratic and bourgeois homes was usually depicted, while towards the end of the 19^th century the artists often painted their own loved ones.

The exhibition shows works of some of our best-loved Scandinavian artists such as Carl Larsson, Hanna Pauli, Fanny Brate, Pehr Hilleström, and many others. Many of the works are extremely fragile and can only rarely be shown to the public, for example six watercolors from Carl Larsson’s famous series, A Home. The works are grouped by various themes, such as 18th-Century Manor House Interiors, Bourgeois Parlours, In the Kitchen, and Bright Rooms at the Turn of the Century. 

Exhibits comprise over 50 oil paintings, drawings and watercolors, and selected pieces of applied art. All of the works in the exhibition are part of Nationalmuseum’s collection, except two. Carl Larsson’s magnificent oil painting Mrs Dora Lamm and Her Two Eldest Sons is on loan from the Gävleborg County Museum, and is on display along with other artefacts and photographs from the Lamm residence at Näsby Castle in Täby. The rococo-style dresser next to Dora in the painting is also shown in the exhibition and allows the motif to extend into the surrounding space.

The exhibition runs from 16 June to 15 August 2010.
Nationalmuseum is closed Saturday 19 June

Further information
Hanna Tottmar, press officer: htr@nationalmuseum.se, +46 8 5195 4390

Captions
Fanny Brate A Day of Celebration, L. A. Ring At Breakfast, Carl Larsson Pontus © Nationalmuseum