Related: Impressionism: Between Shadow and Light In 1875, at the age of 15, Zorn used the rest of his inheritance and entered the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, located in Stockholm. He began his studies with the ambition of becoming a wood sculptor, but quickly realized that watercolor was his favorite mode of expression. Anders Zorn, Interiör med kulla, probably executed around 1880, watercolor, 39 x 27 cm. Growing up speaking Moramål, the official language spoken in Mora at the time, young Zorn had to learn Swedish when he arrived in Enköping. It was at this time that his teacher noticed his talent for drawing and there Zorn would get his very first art award. Anders Zorn (1860-1920) was born in 1860 in Mora, Sweden to the German brewer Leonard Zorn and Grudd Anna Andersdotter. His parents meet at a brewery during Leonard's brief professional stint in Uppsala, and after a short affair, Grudd Anna gave birth to baby Anders, one of the most famous artists in Swedish art history.Īnders Zorn's childhood unfolded peacefully on a farm near Mora, with his mother and maternal grandparents. At the age of twelve, in 1872, he moved to Enköping to begin his studies, a rare opportunity made possible by the inheritance he received upon the death of his father (whom he never met.)

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