The 2024 Portrait of Honour depicts songwriter and music producer extraordinaire Max Martin, and was taken by photographer Mikael Jansson. The Portrait of Honour will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle on 13 October, where it will become part of the collection in the Swedish National Portrait Gallery.
This autumn, Nationalmuseum is presenting a major exhibition entitled The Romantic Eye. Visitors will enjoy a full-on experience of the revolutionary artworks that appeared in the years around 1800, when art itself and the role of the artist evolved to reflect emerging ideas about independent thinking, individual experience and the creative mind. The exhibition runs from 26 September 2024.
New research at the Nationalmuseum has shown that a painting in the collections, earlier ascribed to an anonymous artist, can now be attributed to Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt’s pupils. The attribution and dating of the painting are based on stylistic analysis combined with technical examination of painting technique and materials.
Living as she does close to nature, Sami artist Britta Marakatt-Labba is increasingly aware of the changes being wrought by global warming. Thanks to a very generous donation from the Friends of Nationalmuseum Bengt Julin Foundation, her work Máilmmi liegganeapmi (Global Warming II) has now joined the Nationalmuseum collection.
Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has acquired the painting Young Man Asleep Before an Open Book, probably executed in Rembrandt’s studio in the mid-17th century.
In spring and summer 2024, Nationalmuseum will be hosting an exhibition on Harriet Backer who was one of Norway’s most influential artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Backer was one of the most prominent colourists in Scandinavia and portrayers of light and atmosphere in interiors.
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm invites visitors to explore the design philosophy of the Japanese designer Akira Minagawa in the exhibition Design = Memory. Akira Minagawa & Minä perhonen. Textiles, fashion, design objects, as well as original artworks are all in a circular dialogue showcasing the creative process.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a sculpture by Ingel Fallstedt (1848–99). The terracotta piece forms an entire spatial scene in miniature, showing a woman sitting in an armchair in front of a draped mirror.
Nationalmuseum has now acquired nine watercolour sketches of Carl Larsson for the Royal Opera's foyer’s ceiling and wall paintings, dated 1896–97, illuminating the artist’s final vision. The watercolours present the compositions almost exactly as they were executed.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a painting dated 1822 by Polish-German artist Johann Theodor Goldstein. The imaginary scene depicts a towering cathedral in the early dusk. With its wonderfully visionary qualities, the painting is a novel addition to Nationalmuseum’s German art collection. It will go on show for the first time in autumn 2024 as part of the exhibition entitled The Romantic Eye.
The 2023 Portrait of Honour depicts the geneticist and Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo. Painted in oil on canvas by Sixten Sandra Österberg, the portrait joins the collection of the Swedish National Portrait Gallery and will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle on 28 October.
The textile artist Lisa Juntunen Roos receives the 2023 Young Applied Artists award. In her works, she explores materiality, technique, narrative, and the strong role played by tradition.
A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. It is the first part of Volume 28, which contains scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions in 2021. The publication is issued in digital format and is made available free of charge – both to read online and for downloading.
An 1851 silver tankard in the shape of a tree stump has been donated to the Nationalmuseum collection. It exemplifies the naturalistic style popular in the 19th century that drew inspiration and motifs from the natural world.
The year at Nationalmuseum begins with exhibitions about the Norwegian artist Harriet Backer and the Japanese designer Akira Minagawa. It then ends with a large exhibition about Romanticism with art both from the 19th century and contemporary art.
Wednesday 11 October it is time for the Tessin Lecture 2023. This year it is given by the renown Romanian-Spanish art historian Victor I. Stoichita. The lecture will focus on Italian School of Venice-artist Gentile Bellini’s paintings from his visit to Istanbul circa 1480, especially his portrait of Sultan Mehmet II.
The exhibition Just like in a mirror – portraits over five centuries presents men, women and children who lived in or served Sweden from the 16th century to the present day. Not all the subjects were born in the country, but they all contributed in various ways to its history or cultural life. Some of the artists and subjects have a connection with Jämtland.
Nationalmuseum has received three donations of mid-20th-century illustrative art. Comprising some 500 works in total by Birger Lundquist, Bertil Almqvist and Allan Löthman, and covering a range of subject matter, techniques and styles typical of Swedish illustrative art of the period, the donations constitute a valuable addition to the museum’s collection.
Nationalmuseum has acquired a portrait of Axel von Fersen at the age of 23, painted in London in the summer of 1778. The superb miniature by an unknown British artist depicts a self-assured young man, perhaps on account of his intended marriage to a rich heiress.
Nationalmuseum has received 25 silver artefacts, forming 11 works, generously donated by the artist Anna Atterling. All the pieces were made using the silversmithing technique developed by Atterling, which results in delicate forms with decorative cavities. Several of the pieces will be on display in The Joy of Giving exhibition opening on 5 July.
Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s museum of art and design. The collections include paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art from the 16th century up to the beginning of the 20th century and the collection of applied art and design up to the present day. The total amount of objects is around 700,000. .
The emphasis of the collection of paintings is on Swedish 18th and 19th century painting. Dutch painting from the 17th century is also well represented, and the French 18th century collection is regarded as one of the best in the world. The works are made by artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Boucher, Watteau, Renoir and Degas as well as Swedish artists such as Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson, Ernst Josephson and Carl Fredrik Hill.
The collection of applied art and design consists of objects such as ceramics, textiles, glass and precious and non-precious metals as well as furniture and books etc. The collection of prints and drawings comprises works by Rembrandt, Watteau, Manet, Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson. Central are the 2,000 master drawings that Carl Gustaf Tessin acquired during his tour of duty as Sweden's ambassador to France in the 18th century.
Art and objects from Nationalmuseum’s collections can also be seen at several royal palaces such as Gripsholm, Drottningholm, Strömsholm, Rosersberg and Ulriksdal as well as in the Swedish Institute in Paris. The museum administers the Swedish National Portrait Gallery at Gripsholm Castle, the world’s oldest national portrait gallery and the Gustavsberg collection with approximately 45,000 objects manufactured at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory. Nationalmuseum also curates exhibitions at Nationalmuseum Jamtli and the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum.
Nationalmuseum is a government authority with a mandate to preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art and that falls within the remit of the Swedish Ministry of Culture.
Södra Blasieholmshamnen 2
111 48 Stockholm
Sweden