Thielska Galleriet is an art museum in the Djurgården park area of Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Sweden

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. The museum originates as the private residence and art gallery of the banker and collector Ernest Thiel

Ernest Thiel

Ernest Jacques Thiel was a Swedish financier and art collector whose former villa in the Stockholm park area Djurgården today houses the Thielska galleriet...

 (1859-1947) who acquired art by his contemporaries among Scandinavian

Scandinavian

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 artists, such as Bruno Liljefors

Bruno Liljefors

Bruno Andreas Liljefors was a Swedish artist, the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century...

, Eugène Jansson

Eugène Jansson

Eugène Fredrik Jansson was a Swedish painter known for his night-time land- and cityscapes dominated by shades of blue. Towards the end of his life, from about 1904, he mainly painted male nudes...

 and Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...

. The house, built in 1904-1907, was designed by the architect

Architect

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 Ferdinand Boberg

Ferdinand Boberg

Ferdinand Boberg, born 11 April 1860 in Falun, died 7 May 1946 in Stockholm, was a Swedish architect.He was one of the most productive and prominent architects of Stockholm around the turn of the 20th century. Among his most famous work is an electrical plant at Björns Trädgård in Stockholm, that...

. By 1922, Thiel had lost his fortune, and the gallery was acquired by the state in 1924 and opened to the public in 1926.