Sven-Harry's Art Museum

Coordinates: 59°20′23″N 18°02′38″E / 59.3396°N 18.0440°E / 59.3396; 18.0440
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Sven-Harry's Art Museum
Stockholm, Sweden
TypeArt museum
Websitewww.sven-harrys.se/en/

Sven-Harry's Art Museum (Swedish: Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum) is an art museum in Stockholm, Sweden, founded by builder Sven-Harry Karlsson. It is housed in a multi-purpose building alongside an art gallery, museum shop, apartments, and businesses.

History

The award-winning

Sven-Harry Karlsson [sv] (b. 1931) has been an art collector since the mid-1960s, forming a collection including work by Carl Fredrik Hill, Helene Schjerfbeck, Ernst Josephson, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Anders Zorn, and others. He constructed a building to house his collection in Vasaparken in Stockholm's inner city.[2] Designed by Gert Wingårdh and Anna Höglund of Wingårdh Architects, the 5-story building is clad in a gold-tinted copper-aluminium-zinc alloy designed not to darken when exposed to oxygen.[3] It opened in 2011 and is now owned and run by a foundation.[2] Its director since 2018 has been Dragana Kusoffsky Maksimović.[2]

In addition to Sven-Harry's Art Museum, the building houses an art gallery, a museum shop, a restaurant and other businesses, and 18 apartments in its 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft).

Karin Mamma Andersson and Torsten Andersson. The remainder of the ground floor is taken up by commercial enterprises.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Innovativ byggmaestare faar ekkronans stora boendepris" (Innovative Builder Gets Ekkronan Great Housing Award 2007"). MyNewsDesk.com, Oct. 10, 2007. (in Swedish)
  2. ^ a b c d e f "About Us". Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum website. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b Lomholt, Isabelle. "Sven-Harry's Art Museum". E-Architect website, Dec. 28, 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2017
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