Thielska galleriet
The galleriet Thielska is an art museum on Djurgården in Stockholm .
The Thielska galleriet is one of the finest art museums in Sweden . The building, a snow-white villa in Viennese Art Nouveau style , was built for himself and his family by the banker and financier Ernest Thiel (1859–1947). The building is located on the highest point in the eastern part of Djurgården and was built according to the design of the architect Ferdinand Boberg and inaugurated in 1905. Since Ernest Thiel was also an important art collector, he filled his house with the works of contemporary, partly still unknown artists, among them Bruno Liljefors , Carl Larsson , Anders Zorn and Edvard Munch . When Thiel ran into economic difficulties in 1924, he was forced to sell his art collection and house to the Swedish state, which opened it to the public as an art museum.
There is a large collection of Edvard Munch's works. Also represented here are: Nils Kreuger , Eugène Jansson , Ernst Josephson , Carl Fredrik Hill and August Strindberg .
The gallery also owns a copy of Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask , whom Thiel admired and whose works he had translated.
The building has been under monument protection as Byggnadsminne since 1993 .
Web links
- Thielska galleriet's official website
- Entry in the bebyggelseregistret des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 20 ″ N , 18 ° 8 ′ 55 ″ E