| Anders Zorn |
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The Swede Anders Zorn is one of Scandinavia’s most renowned artists, both at home and internationally.
He owes his reputation
abroad mainly to his portraits, which show his magnificent abilities
in reflecting character and personality. |
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| Arne Jacobsen |
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Arne Jacobsen (1902-71),
architect and designer.
Educated at the School of Visual Arts of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he later became
a professor (1956-65), Jacobsen designed
furniture, textiles, tapestries and silverware besides being a renowned
architect.
Among his most famous works is the chair Myren (drawn for Novos cantine)
(1952), The 7 (1955),
the Egg and Swan
(drawn for the SAS Royal Hotel) and
the dinnerware series Cylinda-Line (1967). |
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| Asger Jorn |
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With his untiring curiosity, Asger Jorn
has had a great influence
on Danish and European art in the mid-20th century.
His expressive, spontaneous abstract style
has attained international recognition.
Jorn used numerous different methods,
styles and artistic forms.
A prolific artist and a writer,
he is probably Denmark’s best known artist outside Denmark. |
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| Gustav Vigeland |
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Every Norwegian knows Gustav Vigeland and most tourists visit the Vigelandsparken when
they visit Oslo.
This book is the perfect souvenir for tourists that become fascinated by Vigeland’s unique sculptures. |
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| Edvard Munch |
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Edvard Munch is the best-known of all Norwegian artists.
His art is as alive and significant today as it was in his own time.
In this book we get an insight into his thoughts and overview of some of his most famous paintings.
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| Scandinavian Architecture |
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The renowned Scandinavian architects
who feature in this book,
such as Alvar Aalto, Knut Knutsen,
Arne Jacobsen and Jorgen Utzon have given Scandinavian architecture
its distinct characteristics.
This book focuses on the post-war period,
when Scandinavian design and architecture asserted itself as a distinct style within the school
of European architecture. |
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| Scandinavian Design |
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Art critics often highlight the ideological context of Scandinavian
design and view it as a visual expression of the ideals of social justice, an integral part of welfare politics in the Nordic countries that were frontrunners in the social-democratic movement that
began in the thirties.
The political ideal of for the
welfare state and “the good life” for everyone in society found its aesthetic corollary in the a new thinking in design.
As a result, after 1945, functionalism had emerged as the dominant
Scandinavian style.
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| The Skagen Painters |
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The Skagen Painters were a group of Scandinavian artists who came together around the turn of the twentieth century in Skagen,
Denmark’s northernmost point, where two oceansmeet. They formed a particular school of painting, inspired by the unique quality of light at Skagen. "This country is mild, smiling, fantastic, mighty, wild, wonderful and awe-inspiring .... it is Skagen – there is no other place on the face of this earth like it”
This is how the Norwegian painter Christian Krohg describes Skagen. |
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| Viking Art |
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“A life of culture” is not the
first word to mind
when you mention the Viking Age.
But art and culture flourished
in many ways in those days.
This book is about the different artistic
styles and forms that have come down to us from the Viking period. |
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