MYTER (Myths).
Author: von Holten, Ragnar, ed
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Year Published: 1983
No. of pages: 284
Illustrations: 8 Color Illustrations. 192 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 7 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9171002421
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bibl.
Code: 3799
Price: $39.50
Having selected five themes, this intriguing internationally oriented exhibition attempts to follow these themes back throughout the history of art to rediscover their mythological roots. Drawing from the collections of both the National Museum and the Modern Museum in Stockholm, this exhibition presents over 350 works of art that deal with one of the main themes. These include: the Great Mother, Time, Heroism, Technology, and themes pertaining to artists, such as the Muses, Rembrandt, the history of poetry, Faust, and Dionysus. An enthralling journey that illuminates the striking commonalities in the art of all time periods, and therefore also sheds light on the similarities between humans in all ages of history.
MÄSTERVERK FRÅN SPÖKSLOTTET (Masterpieces from the Haunted Mansion). Den Bergska Samlingen (The Berg Collection)
Author: Weibull, Nina and Magnus Olausson
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 104
Illustrations: 30 Color Illustrations. 35 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound w/ jacket
Size: 10 1/2”x 8”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 917100516I
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Cat. of exh.
Code: 3775
Price: $26.50
The old Spökslottet, located in Stockholm’s student quarters and affiliated with Stockholm University, houses one of Sweden’s most prestigious art collections begun by Captain Johan Adolf Berg. On the occasion of the renovation of Spökslottet, this collection of masterpieces are exhibited as a collaborative effort between Stockholm University and the Nationalmuseum. Paintings in the collection are organized into categories such as: Bresia, Florence, and Paris, 1500-1640; Tiepolo and Venetian painting, 1730-60; Antwerp and Nuremberg, 1500-70; Pieter Brueghel and brothers Van Cleve, 1560-80; Antwerp, Brussels, and Haarlem, 1590-1650; Netherlands historical paintings, 1620-50; Netherlands, still life, genre, and landscape paintings, 1630-80; Sweden, 16th to 19th century. An engaging book with introductory essays presenting the history of Berg’s collection, this book also includes illustrations and in-depth descriptions of each of the 52 paintings displayed.
NASJONALGALLERIETS FØRSTE 25 ÅR 1837-1862 (National Gallery’s First 25 Years).
Author: Lange, Marit, ed
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 407
Illustrations: 25 Color Illustrations. 219 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11 1/2”x 8”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 8290744498
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bibl.
Code: 4346
Price: $99.50
An exhaustive catalogue documenting the first 25 years of the Norwegian National Gallery, with a chronology of the museum’s history, catalogues covering their collection of paintings and sculpture, in addition to in-depth essays regarding their collecting history and general ideology. The collection include primarily Italian and Dutch landscape paintings, Dutch domestic interiors, portraiture and still-lifes, in addition to the Thorvaldsen Collection.
NATIONALISM AND THE NORDIC IMAGINATION. Swedish Art of the 1890s
Author: Michelle Facos
Country: New Jersey
Language: English
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 234
Illustrations: 12 Color Illustrations. 98 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound
Size: 10 1/2”x 7 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 520206266
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 3219
Price: $65.00
This well illustrated book is a lucid introduction to the Modernism that came out of fin-de-siecle Sweden. The work is one of a few studies in English to seriously examine the movement known as Swedish National Romanticism. A small group of Swedish artists espoused a politically progressive, culturally conservative form of nationalism. These artists - among them Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors, and Hanna Hirsch Pauli - produced a specifically national Swedish art by focusing on indigenous history, legends, and folk tales, as well as uniquely Swedish- Nordic values, geography, and ethnography.
NATIONALMUSEUM STOCKHOLM ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE - PAINTINGS FROM DENMARK, FINLAND AND NORWAY / ILLUSTRERAD KATALOG ÖVER ÄLDRE MÅLERI FRÅN DANMARK, FINLAND OCH NORGE.
Author: Hökby, Nils-Göran
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 105
Illustrations: 90 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound w/ jacket
Size: 10”x 7”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9171005005
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 3783
Price: $45.00
As part of Nationalmuseum’s ambitious catalogue series documenting their complete collections of Swedish and Nordic art, this new main catalogue supersedes the earlier one from 1952. This book is illustrated throughout, presenting the complete collection of over 400 paintings from Denmark, Norway, and Finland, though the majority of paintings come from Denmark and Norway. Danish artists include artists such as Rohde, Sørensen, the Anchers, Paulsen, Kyhn, Eckersberg, Skovgaard, Hammershøi and L.A. Ring while Norwegian artists include Arbo, Askevold, Bagge, Cappelen, Johan Christian Dahl, Thaulow, Jacobsen, Sohlberg, Krohg, and Werenskiold, to name a few.