Press release -
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 18th and 19th 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 18th and 19th 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 18th century the social life of aristocratic and bourgeois homes was usually depicted, while towards the end of the 19th 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
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