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Anders Zorn: Midsummer Dance  wikidata:Q10585101 reasonator:Q10585101
Artist
Anders Zorn  (1860–1920)  wikidata:Q206820 q:it:Anders Zorn
 
Anders Zorn
Alternative names
Anders Leonard Zorn
Description Swedish painter, sculptor, watercolorist, engraver, photographer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 18 February 1860 Edit this at Wikidata 22 August 1920 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Yvraden near Mora Mora Parish Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris (1888); Constantinople; Madrid; London; St Ives; Chicago; United States of America (1893–1911) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q206820
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Title
English: Midsummer Dance
Svenska: Midsommardans
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: In his autobiographical notes, Anders Zorn writes about how the idea for the painting was born:

"This work was painted in June and part of July after sunset and I am pleased to have done it. I had just given Morkarlby a new maypole. It was painted red every Midsummer and I realised and still realise that it is my solemn duty to be present and to lead the dressing of said pole. My farmhand, dear Verner, was in charge of raising the maypole on the stroke of midnight on Midsummer night. Once it was up, a reel was played and people danced hand-in-hand around the maypole and the yards in an endless snake of youngsters. Then there was dancing in one of the yards until sunrise. This is what my painting portrays."

Zorn does not put the maypole at the centre of his Midsummer Dance. His message is all about the experience of the dance, the scents of a summer night and the light. He completed this painting in 1897.

Nationalmuseum received the work Midsummer Dance as a gift from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1903. There is a replica in a rather smaller format in private ownership, commissioned by an American collector in 1903.
Svenska: Anders Zorn har i sina självbiografiska anteckningar skrivit om hur idén till målningen föddes:

”Denna tavla målades då under juni och en del av juli månad efter solnedgången och jag är glad att ha gjort den. Jag hade just då gett Morkarlby en ny majstång. Den målades röd varje midsommar och jag ansåg och anser fortfarande som min heliga plikt att närvara och leda klädningen av densamma. För resningen kl 12 midsommarnatten har min dräng, den käre Verner, fått vara överste. När den väl var rest spelades upp en polska och en långdans dansades kring stången och in på gårdarna, en ändlös orm av ungdom. Sedan dansades inne på någon gård till soluppgången. Se där vad min tavla föreställer.”

I Zorns Midsommardans är inte majstången i centrum, utan det är upplevelsen av dansen, av sommarnattens dofter och av ljuset som är hans budskap. Nationalmuseum fick målningen i gåva av Konstakademien 1903. I privat ägo finns en replik i något mindre format, ursprungligen beställd av en amerikansk samlare samma år.
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English: In his autobiographical notes, Anders Zorn writes about how the idea for the painting was born:

"This work was painted in June and part of July after sunset and I am pleased to have done it. I had just given Morkarlby a new maypole. It was painted red every Midsummer and I realised and still realise that it is my solemn duty to be present and to lead the dressing of said pole. My farmhand, dear Verner, was in charge of raising the maypole on the stroke of midnight on Midsummer night. Once it was up, a reel was played and people danced hand-in-hand around the maypole and the yards in an endless snake of youngsters. Then there was dancing in one of the yards until sunrise. This is what my painting portrays."

Zorn does not put the maypole at the centre of his Midsummer Dance. His message is all about the experience of the dance, the scents of a summer night and the light. He completed this painting in 1897.

Nationalmuseum received the work Midsummer Dance as a gift from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1903. There is a replica in a rather smaller format in private ownership, commissioned by an American collector in 1903.
Svenska: Anders Zorn har i sina självbiografiska anteckningar skrivit om hur idén till målningen föddes:

”Denna tavla målades då under juni och en del av juli månad efter solnedgången och jag är glad att ha gjort den. Jag hade just då gett Morkarlby en ny majstång. Den målades röd varje midsommar och jag ansåg och anser fortfarande som min heliga plikt att närvara och leda klädningen av densamma. För resningen kl 12 midsommarnatten har min dräng, den käre Verner, fått vara överste. När den väl var rest spelades upp en polska och en långdans dansades kring stången och in på gårdarna, en ändlös orm av ungdom. Sedan dansades inne på någon gård till soluppgången. Se där vad min tavla föreställer.”

I Zorns Midsommardans är inte majstången i centrum, utan det är upplevelsen av dansen, av sommarnattens dofter och av ljuset som är hans budskap. Nationalmuseum fick målningen i gåva av Konstakademien 1903. I privat ägo finns en replik i något mindre format, ursprungligen beställd av en amerikansk samlare samma år.
Date 1897
date QS:P571,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions
  • height: 140 cm (55.1 in); width: 98 cm (38.5 in)
    dimensions QS:P2048,140U174728
    dimensions QS:P2049,98U174728
  • Framed: height: 181 cm (71.2 in); width: 145 cm (57 in); depth: 10 cm (3.9 in)
    dimensions QS:P2048,181U174728
    dimensions QS:P2049,145U174728
    dimensions QS:P5524,10U174728
institution QS:P195,Q842858
Accession number
NM 1603
Exhibition history
Inscriptions
Svenska: Signerad: Zorn 1897
References
Source/Photographer Nationalmuseum
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