Scandinavian Art and Design: InSight lecture series
This event is organised by the Friends but open to all. Join the Friends and receive a discount.
Held to complement Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway, this series of talks will explore the development of Scandinavian design characterised by an underlying love of natural forms. Since the late 19th Scandinavian painters, sculptors and designers have achieved a leading place in European art.
Painting Norway
Wednesday 27 January
Ian A C Dejardin explores how 19th century Norwegian artists strove to find a visual language to represent their beautiful country moving from J.C. Dahl’s vast romantic panoramas to the atmospheric work of Nikolai Astrup and the more disturbing visions of Edvard Munch.
Ian A C Dejardin, Sackler Director, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Co-curator, Painting Norway: Nikolai Astrup
Modern Scandinavian design - an ongoing story
Wednesday 3 February
Magnus Englund will chart the 1920s development of what we now consider modern Scandinavian design. Explore the separate identities that developed in the different Nordic countries as well as key objects, product designers, architects and manufacturers.
Magnus Englund, cofounder of the British retailer Skandium, is author of two books on Scandinavian design, and Director of the Isokon Gallery Trust.
Georg Jensen- Danish Silversmith
Wednesday 17 February
Georg Jensen established his renowned Danish silver-smithing and jewellery studio in the early 20th century. His success depended on a skilful fusion of the Arts and Crafts movement and continental Art Nouveau. Eric Turner will look at Jensen’s everyday objects which combine beauty and utility to give pleasure to the user in styles still current today.
Eric Turner, Curator, Department of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum
