Nordic Art

Late 19th and early 20th century Nordic art reflects a search for national identity and social transformation. The cosy domestic landscapes of Carl Larsson and Edvard Munch’s dark works are supplemented by those of national icons like Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Vilhelm Hammershøi. Nordic Art describes both the fertile domestic environment in Nordic countries introducing artists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland whose contributions, though crucial, may be less familiar to international audiences. Nordic Art offers the first comprehensive view of this critical period of cultural development in the Nordic countries and the extraordinary art that it produced, which in its turn influenced other European art.