February 18, 1869 Anders Zorn was born

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Zorn, Anders Zorn, Anders

Swedish painter and graphic artist. Zorn studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1875-1881), then traveled to Spain, England, was in Paris and in 1896 settled in his hometown of Moore. Until 1888 he worked almost exclusively in watercolor technique, following the English fashion, and executed portraits, landscapes and genre scenes. Particularly interesting are his virtuosic compositions depicting moving water (<On the Bosporus>, 1886, Moore, Museum Zorn; <Splash>, 1887, Copenhagen, Gos. Art Mu-bonds). In 1888-1896 he lived in Paris, where he paints in oils. In broad strokes of an artist sculpts smooth rough, but very plastic forms. Genre scenes and portraits of different brightness and grasped his position, why disappears every convention (<Night Effect>, 1895, Gothenburg, Art Museum, <Portrait COQUELLES Younger>, 1889, private collection). Nudity curvy shape against the background of typical landscapes and was appreciated by his contemporaries (<Ute>, 1888, Malmö, museum). After returning to Moore, the artist works in a decorative manner, full of colorful contrasts: he depicts the various Valais and folk scene (<Dance in St-Jean>, 1897, Stockholm, Nat. Museum) and scenes from domestic life and landscapes with nude figures, portraits, in which the brilliance of execution often conceals a certain weakness in design. Also, Zorn has revived the Swedish engraving, about 1882 he created the technique, in which dense hatching passes contrasting effects. His role model was a Rembrandt, graphic works that he collected, the expressive power of portraits of Zorn's hidden in their variability (<Portrait Renan> 1892 <Portrait of a collector Marcano>, 1893, <Portrait of Charles Larson>, 1897, <Portrait of Rodin> 1907). His collection and his own works Zorn bequeathed Moore's hometown, where he opened his museum. The artist's paintings are also represented in the Museum d'Orsay in Paris (<Portrait of Berdli>, 1906; <Nude farmer>).

"We must be able to draw paint"
"Artist does not tire you the difficulty of his work"
"The Impressionists - it Velazquez"
                                      A. Zorn

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