Thielska galleriet

The Thielska galleriet is an art museum on Djurgården in Stockholm.

The Thielska galleriet is one of the most distinguished art museums in Sweden. The building, a snow- white villa in the Vienna Art Nouveau had, can be constructed in the banking and financier Ernest Thiel (1859-1947) for himself and his family. The building is located on the highest point in the eastern part Djurgårdens and was built by the architect Ferdinand Boberg and inaugurated in 1905. As Ernest Thiel was also a major art collector, he filled his house with the works of contemporary, still partially unknown, artists, among them Bruno Liljefors, Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn and Edvard Munch. As Thiel 1924 fell into economic difficulties, he was forced to his art collection and to sell his house to the Swedish state, which made this available to the public as an art museum.

Today the Thielska has galleriet a large collection of works by Edvard Munch. In addition, here represented among others: Nils Kreuger, Eugène Jansson, Ernst Josephson, Carl Fredrik Hill and August Strindberg.

In possession of the gallery is also a copy of the death mask of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Thiel very revered, and whose works he had translated.

The building is a listed building.