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The Zorn Museum
The Zorn Museum is on Dalagatan 36 in downtown Mora
Dalarna
Southern Sweden
Sweden
Type: Museum
Addmission Fee: Admission is 40 kr/$4.30
Hours: Open Monday-Sunday
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Dalarna
Southern Sweden
Sweden
Type: Museum
Addmission Fee: Admission is 40 kr/$4.30
Hours: Open Monday-Sunday
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One of the most famous Swedish artists, Anders Zorn, was born in Mora in 1860. He spent much time abroad but always liked to return to his native Dalarna where he found many of his favorite subjects for paintings. Some of the best-known paintings can be seen in the museum here in Mora. He clearly liked painting portraits of women such as his wife Emma, but also self-portraits and portraits of ordinary people in his native Dalarna with the beautiful landscape in the background. One of the paintings in the museum is of a young woman whose eyes follow you around wherever you walk in the room – a little bit creepy.
Zorn became, unlike many other famous painters of the past, rich and famous in his own lifetime. He would charge 50,000 kr/$5,300 for painting a portrait in Sweden, an extraordinary amount in those days. When he was abroad, he would charge even more. Some of the famous people he portrayed in his paintings include US presidents Grover Cleveland, William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt – painted during his numerous trips to America.
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