Anders Zorn was arguably the most internationally successful of all the Scandinavian painters working in the 1890s. In his effort to make a place for himself as a Scandinavian modernist, Zorn fashioned a style that was at once internationally relevant and regionally peculiar.
With particular attention to Zorn’s extended sojourns in Paris and the United States, the works he produced in these years, and the cultural luminaries he encountered and worked with, this talk will contextualize Zorn in the general emergence of Scandinavian art into the mainstream and evaluate his significance for this phenomenon.
About Dr. Thor J. Mednick
Dr. Thor J. Mednick, former Fellow of the ASF and the Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Foundation, is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Toledo. A recognized scholar of 19th-century art and an expert on turn-of-the-century art in Denmark, he has published on Peder Severin Krøyer and the artists’ colony in Skagen, Denmark, and is currently preparing a publication on the work of Vilhelm Hammershøi.
Mednick earned a Ph.D. in 2009 from Indiana University, Bloomington, School of Fine Arts, Department of the History of Art, specializing in the areas of 19th- and 20th-century European Art, with minors in African art, as well as European and American History. In 2003, he also earned an M.A. in Art History/Museum Studies, with a Museum Studies Certificate, form the University of Southern California, Art History Department.
Prior to that, in 1993, Mednick earned a B.F.A in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema/Television. In spring 2003, he also studied at the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Fine Arts, taking written examinations in Modern Danish Art.
He is an internationally recognized expert with a solid record of publications, presentations, exhibitions, awards, fellowships and numerous works in progress.
A proven instructor in a variety of settings since 2003, Dr. Mednick has been affiliated since 2010 with Missouri Southern State University (MSSU), in Joplin, as a non-tenure stream Assistant Professor of Art. He was Visiting Scholar for the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Art and Cultural Studies in 2009 – 2010 and for the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 – 2009.
Prior to that, in 1993, Mednick earned a B.F.A in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema/Television. In spring 2003, he also studied at the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Fine Arts, taking written examinations in Modern Danish Art.
He is an internationally recognized expert with a solid record of publications, presentations, exhibitions, awards, fellowships and numerous works in progress.
A proven instructor in a variety of settings since 2003, Dr. Mednick has been affiliated since 2010 with Missouri Southern State University (MSSU), in Joplin, as a non-tenure stream Assistant Professor of Art. He was Visiting Scholar for the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Art and Cultural Studies in 2009 – 2010 and for the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 – 2009.
He served as Visiting Lecturer, from 2006 to 2009 at the University of Copenhagen, and in 2005 at the Visual Arts and Media Studies Division at Pasadena City College.
At Indiana University, he was Instructor of Record in fall 2004 and spring 2005 as well as Teaching Assistant in fall 2003 and spring 2004. Between 2000 and 2003, he was also employed in a number of curatorial positions, including at the National Gallery of Art in Copenhagen; the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, California; and the Fisher Gallery at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.
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