Portrait of August Strindberg
Portrait of August Strindberg
3D
Published 2019-10-23T14:24:57+00:00
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.
A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.
These 3D scans have been produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates as due to inaccessible areas etc deviations from the original might occur
Photography credit: CC BY SA - Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum
| Date published | 23/10/2019 |
| Complexity | Medium |
| Title | Portrait of August Strindberg |
| Date | 1895 |
| Dimension | Height 178 cm |
| Accession | NMSk 2021 |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Credit | Purchased 1969 |
| Record | http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=28074&viewType=detailView |
| Artist | Agnes de Frumerie |
| Place | Nationalmuseum |
