{"id":13368,"date":"2016-06-20T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=13368"},"modified":"2017-05-20T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:04:06","slug":"einar-jonsson-sculpture-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/einar-jonsson-sculpture-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Einar J\u00f3nsson Sculpture Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born at Galtafell farm in southern Iceland, Einar J\u00f3nsson<\/a> studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, settling in the Danish capital from 1904 following a couple of years spent mostly in Rome, with visits also to Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Florence. At the time, around the turn of the twentieth century, Iceland possessed little in the way of a sculptural tradition, but J\u00f3nsson\u2019s experiences in Rome and of the fin-de-si\u00e8cle culture of Central Europe encouraged him to reject classical forms, and he began to create inspired by German symbolism.<\/p>\n

By the end of the first decade of the 1900s,\u00a0J\u00f3nsson was turning too to Norse mythology, theosophy, and the mysticism of Emanuel Swedenborg. In 1909 he made an offer to the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, which would gift all of his works to the state in return for a museum in which to house them. This offer was accepted in 1914, and the Althing set about transporting his sculptures from Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

As the site for his museum,\u00a0J\u00f3nsson chose\u00a0Skolavorduhaed, then nothing more than a \u2018desolate hill on the outskirts of town\u2019, looming high above Reykjavik. He hoped that the hill would become the political and cultural Acropolis of an independent Iceland, but although Iceland gained sovereignty from Denmark in 1918 and in 1944 proclaimed a republic, Skolavorduhaed would have to settle instead for Hallgr\u00edmskirkja, Reykjavik\u2019s iconic church with its expressionist tower which was constructed between 1945 and 1986.<\/p>\n

With help from the architect Einar Erlendsson, J\u00f3nsson designed every aspect of his museum, which also contained a studio\u00a0and living quarters. Construction began in 1916, and after a couple of years in the United States,\u00a0J\u00f3nsson returned to Iceland with his wife, Anna Marie J\u00f6rgensen, in time for its opening on midsummer\u2019s day in 1923. It stood boldly atop the hill as the country\u2019s first devoted art museum.<\/p>\n

The Einar\u00a0J\u00f3nsson sculpture garden, carefully tended by Einar and Anna and lying just behind the museum, was formally opened on 8 June 1984. Accessible all year round and free for the roaming of visitors, it features twenty-six bronze casts of\u00a0J\u00f3nsson\u2019s sculptures, including The Wave of Ages<\/em>, Prayer<\/em>, The King of Atlantis<\/em>, Spring<\/em>, Thor Wrestling with Age<\/em>, and Christmas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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