 |
|
ANDERS ZORNAnders Leonardsson was born on February 18th1860. It was not until later that he took his fathers name Zorn who was a German brewer from Reichenberg. Zorn studied in Stockholm at the school for Handicraft and later at the Royal Academy of Fine Art's preparatory school. He studied, among other things, painting, drawing and sculpturing. In 1879 he passed his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Art. He received his diploma on the 28 of June. In the spring of 1881, Anders Zorn met Emma Lamm and on June 2, they were secretly engaged. Zorn died 1920. MY THOUGHTSAnders Zorn has made a lot of paintings thatshow situations that I find really swedish, especially paintings from Dalarna. He has also painted a lot of portraits, but what I personally like the most is the pictures of the nude women. When I look at fashionmodels of today I can't see the real beauty that Zorn found when he picked his subjects. If you want to wiew more pictures by Zorn click the image. |
 |
JOHN BAUER A BIOGRAFHYJohn Bauer was born in Jönköping in 1882. Only16 years old he went to Stockholm to begin his art studies and two years later he was accepted as student at the Royal Academy of Art. In 1907 John Bauer began his illustrations for 'Bland Tomtar och Troll' [Among Pixies and Trolls]. Bauer became the great fairy-tale artist to the Swedish people. With the exception of 1911, Bauer illustrated Bland Tomtar och Troll. At the same time, On the 20th of November 1917, the canal boat Per Brahe sank in Lake Vättern en route to Stockholm, and with it perished John Bauer and his whole family - his wife Esther and his three-year-old son, Putte |  |
THE FAIRY-TALE ARTISTThe first volume of Bland Tomtar och Troll(Among Pixies and Trolls), a collection of fairy-tales written by several Swedish authors, was published in 1907. In these, we find many of John Bauer's most famous pictures such as Princess Tuvstarr, forever contemplating the black waters of the tarn. It is the eyes that make John Bauer's troll different, they seem so friendly. With their different and limited ways of thinking, the trolls do not understand the human world, but in their eyes we sense a good- natured and curious interest. With wonder they stare at the translucent Princess - how could they possibly harm her!He had created the fairy-tale art and made it his own.I would say his way of painting would go very well with the style of books that are so popular today called "fatasy". |  |
To read about other great swedish painters click one of the links below
| Carl Larsson | Ivar Arosenius | Bruno Liljefors |