LECTURE BY PATRIK STEORN

MAN IN THE LANDSCAPE: LECTURE BY PATRIK STEORN

Sunday 3/11 at 13.00 in the art museum's auditorium.

Artists on the beach. Naked men and creativity at the turn of the century 1900.
Bathing culture flourished at the turn of the century and attracted many artists who searched for new motifs with bodies in motion. Some used photographs from the baths as preliminary studies for paintings, others went a step further and made the beach or the bathhouse their studio. The painting "Scandinavian dragons ride till bad" (1906) by Oscar Matthiesen was painted at Ystad's salt lake but was shown to an international audience and had a great impact in the media. Naked men became a popular motif that challenged and changed the conventions of the time around the body, art and morality.
Art historian Patrik Steorn talks about how the beach and the bathhouse became places for artistic innovation and experimentation at the turn of the century in 1900.
Patrik Steorn is museum director at the Gothenburg Museum of Art and docent in art studies. He is particularly focused on Nordic art and visual culture around the turn of the century 1900 and completed his dissertation with the thesis "Naked men. Masculinity and creativity in Swedish visual culture 1900–1915" (2006).
The event is part of "Man in the landscape", a program series in three parts about man in relation to his surrounding nature. Together with ABF Österlen, Ystad's art museum invites artists and researchers to an in-depth conversation. This autumn, it is about naked soldiers on horseback on the beach, about picking wild herbs on occupied land and about connections between botany and witch trials.

All program points in the series have free entry and do not require advance registration.