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A special lecture with Michelle Facos
presented in connection with Anders
Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter, currently on view at
the Academy
Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 6:30 - 8
PM
Emma Lamm Zorn was one of Sweden's most energetic promoters
of social equality, as well as a consequential figure in the
life of her husband, the artist Anders
Zorn. The life of Emma Zorn will be the topic of an
upcoming lecture at the National Academy Museum, "Emma Lamm
Zorn: Philanthropist, Ethnographer, Woman, Jew," presented
by Michelle Facos, professor of art history and Jewish
studies at Indiana University.
The daughter of a prosperous Stockholm merchant, Emma Zorn's
alliance with Anders Zorn, a peasant's illegitimate
artist-son, was an unusual one, but Emma became Zorn's
critic, administrator, model and promotor. Through her
family connections, she was instrumental in opening the
doors that catapulted Zorn's success as a renowned high
society portraitist, and she also went on to establish
Sweden's first open-air museum, an orphanage, and a
community college dedicated to handicrafts.
Michelle Facos teaches art history at Indiana
University-Bloomington. She has published extensively on
Scandinavian art, including her 1998 book,Nationalism
and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s.
Dr. Facos has taught in Sweden and taught courses on
Scandinavian art in the U.S., Germany, and Poland. She is
currently working on two projects: the origins of Northern
Realism and Romanticism in the Copenhagen Academy, and the
role played by Sweden's Jewish community in the promotion of
a Swedish national identity, a project in which Emma Zorn
played a crucial role.
WHAT: Emma
Lamm Zorn: Philanthropist, Ethnographer, Woman, Jew
WHO: Michelle
Facos, Professor, History of Art and Adjunct Professor,
Jewish Studies, Indiana University
WHEN: March 26, 2014, 6:30-8 PM
WHERE: National
Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
TICKETS: Free,
RSVP encouraged at www.nationalacademy.org
or 212.360.4880 x201.
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