Anders Zorn

Anders Leonard Zorn ( born February 18, 1860 in Yvraden Mora; † August 22, 1920 in Mora ) was a Swedish painter, printmaker and sculptor.

Life and work

Childhood

Anders Zorn was born in 1860, Anders Leonardsson in Yvraden at Mora. His father, Johann Leonhard Zorn, was a German-born brewer from Reichenberg, his mother, Anna Anders Dotter Grudd, worked as a seasonal worker in Uppsala. Wrath parents had in a brewery in Uppsala, in which both were working at the time, met. The relationship was short of a marriage never mentioned, and anger never learned to know his father (who died in 1872 in Helsinki). However, he later decided to accept his last name.

His mother had no time for her son because of her work in Uppsala, anger initially grew in the yard of his grandparents on in Yvraden. He soon moved to Enköping to begin his schooling there. His teacher noticed early on the extraordinary artistic talent of the young wrath. He drew pencil sketches of his classmates, images Enköping, and produced some remarkable woodcuts of men and horses, many of which are now on display in the Zorn Museum in Mora.

Study

1875 began wrath at the age of 15 years to study art at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, which he could arise from poor home afford, just by the small inheritance from his father and with the support of the German brewery company in Stockholm.

After anger had initially still dealing with the wood, he soon focused - possibly influenced by visiting a memorial exhibition for the recently deceased Egron Sellif Lundgren - on drawing with watercolors. When a student exhibition in 1880 he presented his first major watercolor, " In Mourning " (I carefully ), which brought him great recognition in the art world. He quickly made a name as a good portrait artist and got in the subsequent period many orders from rich Swedish families. In one of these jobs, he met Emma Lamb, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family. The two became engaged in June 1881 Emma Lamb family liked the young man, but the financial situation of the young artist did not allow him to support a family. ; Therefore, a marriage was not in question at this time.

Travels

To continue his studies and earn enough money for the upkeep of a family, anger left his native Sweden. During the four years that he spent mainly in England and Spain, he was able to improve his style. He spent a lot of time for the study of movement and reflections from water surfaces. With this new knowledge, he later created works such as "Summer fun " ( Sommarnöje ). In Madrid in 1883 was also his work " Love Nymph " ( Kärleksnymf ), which finally securing his reputation as a renowned artist. The pictorial representation of naked women also influenced the painter Brynolf Wennerberg. He got orders from various members of the Portuguese and Spanish nobility, of which he benefited not only artistic, but also financially.

After his return to Sweden in the fall of 1885 Emma married wrath lamb. On the honeymoon trip to Hungary and Turkey diseased anger in Constantinople Opel hard on a typhoid fever. Just three months later he had again recovered so far that the couple was able to continue his journey.

From Sweden undertook anger many more trips to Spain, North Africa and England. In 1888 he presented his work at the Paris Salon " fishing in St Ives" ( i Fiskare Saint Ives ) and the portraits of the ballet dancer Rosita Mauri and journalists Antonin Proust, which brought him considerable success.

1893 began wrath to finished works on behalf of big industrialists and politicians in the United States. During this period he created among other things a well-known portrait of the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, Grover Cleveland and the 27th President William Howard Taft.

Later anger returned to Sweden and painted mostly landscapes and nudes. He also dealt again with the sculpture and created sculptures like " Nymph and Faun " ( Nymf Och Faun ) or a statue of Gustav Vasa.

Anders Zorn died in 1920 at the age of 60 years in Mora. His entire inheritance (with a value equivalent to over 6 million U.S. dollars), he left the Swedish government with the support to build a museum in which not only his own works, but also his considerable collection should be exhibited at international art. The Zorn Museum, opened in 1939, is today in his home town of Mora.