Art Bulletin ofNationalmuseumStockholm

Volume 22

The Friends of the Nationalmuseum

Eva QvibergChair

Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Volume 22, 2015

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Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, is published with generous support from the Friends of the Nationalmuseum.

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Cover IllustrationAnne Vallayer (1744–1818), Portrait of a Violinist, 1773. Oil on canvas, 116 x 96 cm. Purchase: The Wiros Fund. Nationalmuseum, NM 7297.

PublisherBerndt Arell, Director General

EditorJanna Herder

Editorial CommitteeJanna Herder, Linda Hinners, Merit Laine, Lena Munther, Magnus Olausson, Martin Olin, Maria Perers and Lidia Westerberg Olofsson

PhotographsNationalmuseum Photographic Studio/Linn Ahlgren, Bodil Beckman, Erik Cornelius, Anna Danielsson, Cecilia Heisser, Per-Åke Persson and Hans Thorwid

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Photo Credits© Samlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Fig. 5, p. 15)© Museum Bredius The Hague (Fig. 6, p. 16)© The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo/Jacques Lathion (Fig. 2, p. 23)© Kalmar läns museum, Kalmar/Rolf Lind (Fig. 3, p. 27)

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Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum is published annually and contains articles on the history and theory of art relating to the collections of the Nationalmuseum.

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Fig. 1 Catarina Hällzon (b. 1976), Necklace, Grisfjälster (Pork Casing). Silver, pork casing, resin, L. 54 cm. Gift of the Friends of the Nationalmuseum, Bengt Julin Fund. Nationalmuseum, NMK 11/2015.

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As in previous years, Bengt Julin’s Fund has helped fund several acquisitions for the Nationalmuseum’s collection of design and decorative arts. Among these are the necklace Grisfjälster (Pork Casing) by Catarina Hällzon (Fig. 1), which, as the name implies, is made of pork casing. The Fund has also contributed to the pur-chase of the vase Stone, made of whitened silver by Yoki Ferdinand-sen. Ida-Lovisa Rudolfsson was the 2014 recipient of the Young Applied Artists Scholarship, and in 2015 her textile Det var något med himlen (There was something about the sky) could be bought by the Museum. In the category of unusual materials, we find Thread Wrapping Machine Chair 060115 by Anton Alvarez, a chair made of pieces of wood and plastic tubes, thread and glue. Also the shoul-der bag Louis no. 1 by Aia Jüde, made of plaited birch bark, orga-nically tanned leather, wood embossed with 23 carat gold and ink.

In line with the Nationalmuseum’s design focus, the Friends of the Nationalmuseum last year formed a design committee and started a design fund, to which we have already gratefully received a donation.

For several years now, the Friends invites applications from staff at the Nationalmuseum for research and travel grants. Last year, the total awarded grants amounted to SEK 97 200. Thanks to ca-reful management of the Friends of the Nationalmuseum’s funds and foundations, amounting to SEK 115 100 000 on 31 December, 2015, the Friends could donate a total of nearly SEK five millions to the Nationalmuseum. At the end of the year, the Friends had 4 070 members. The annual general meeting in May 2015 was held in the Rikssalen in the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen, and we are deeply grateful for the generosity we have been shown during the refurbishment of the building on Blasieholmen.

The board would like to thank the staff at the Nationalmu-seum warmly for generously sharing their expertise with our members. We also wish to thank our volunteers for their valuable help, which is deeply appreciated by the Nationalmuseum and its Friends.

The years when the Nationalmuseum building is being reno-vated are special to the Friends. Many of us cannot wait for the project to be finished, so we can once again visit the Museum to enjoy its remarkable collections. Nevertheless, this period offers the potential to try new roads, since objects are being lent to mu-seums both in Sweden and other countries. As part of our sup-port to the Nationalmuseum, and to bring more knowledge to our members, we have the ambition of accompanying the Natio-nalmuseum’s art objects on their international visits. Therefore, a group of members went to the Netherlands in March. We have also organised trips on various themes to the UK, Italy and Cali-fornia, USA.

Our rich calendar of events last year included many study tours where our members could learn about a wide range of sub-jects. One of the highlights was a visit to Herman Bergman’s art foundry, where we received a very enlightening presentation of how the art objects are made, from start to finish. Fortunately, this tour coincided with the exhibition on the sculptor Rodin. Moreover, we have offered a variety of guided tours, including the Swedish Academy, the Tändstickspalatset, the exhibitions Hertha Hillfon at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Louise Bourgeois at Moder-na Museet, and Prince Eugen’s 150th Anniversary: Facets of a Life at Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde. All with the aim of stimulating and enhancing our members’ knowledge in the arts.

In 2015, the Friends of the Nationalmuseum also celebrated Queen Hedvig Eleonora (1636–1715), an avid patron of the arts who commissioned the building and refurbishing of several royal palaces and castles, and has been an inspiration to many. We visi-ted Hedvig Eleonora church, the Drottningholm Palace Park with Museum de Vries, and Gripsholm Castle, to share her life work with our members.

For more than a century, the Friends have contributed towards a large number of acquisitions for the Nationalmuseum collection. Without our funding, the collection would probably not have been as extensive, or the Museum in a position to buy se-veral of its masterpieces. In the past year, the Friends of the Natio-nalmuseum has helped fund the purchase of a number of objects. Our contribution came from donations made by members, and dividends on the Friends’ funds and foundations.

Acting on the initiative of members Ernst and Carl Hirsch, the Museum bought Carl Hörvik’s unique furniture suite that was shown at the Paris International Exhibition of 1925. The Hirsch Family and the Friends each contributed half of the sum required (see article on p. 57).

The Friends also had the pleasure of purchasing a study by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert. This study was made for his monu-mental painting, Amor Triumphant Amongst the Emblems of Art, Science and War, which was already in the Museum’s collection (see article on p. 11).