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August Strindberg

Primary (Mora, Sweden, 1860–1920)
NationalitySwedish, Europe
Date1910
MediumEtching
Catalogue raisonnéApslund 231, Hjert 149
DimensionsSheet: 17 11/16 × 12 13/16 in. (44.9 × 32.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 11 5/8 × 7 11/16 in. (29.6 × 19.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.1580
Keywords
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.1580
On View
Not on view
Label Text
The sitter in this portrait is the great Swedish modernist whose plays delve the tensions between the sexes and more broadly between social rule and individual psychology. Rendered by his compatriot, Zorn, both at the height of their fame, the etching is a striking cultural document.
Exhibitions
Ernest Renan
Anders Leonard Zorn
1892
Object number: G1966.2.66
Paul Verlaine II, from Pan
Anders Leonard Zorn
1895
Object number: G1966.2.89
Anders Leonard Zorn
1911
Object number: G1976.11.37
Anders Leonard Zorn
1919
Object number: G1976.11.36
Anders Leonard Zorn
1912
Object number: G1976.11.38
Anders Leonard Zorn
1917
Object number: G1966.2.68
Leonard Baskin
1964
Object number: 1993.15
Leonard Baskin
1945
Object number: 1999.126
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
Leonard Baskin
not dated
Object number: P1964.2
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
Leonard Baskin
1968
Object number: 2006.13
Alhambra
Leonard Lehrer
1979
Object number: 1985.143