Portrait of Pontus Fürstenberg
The Jewish Museum in Stockholm - the Museum of the year in 1994 - is programwise
quite ”impossant” although to its size a small museum.
Ernst Josephson (1851-1906)
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English: Portrait of Pontus Fürstenberg
Pontus Fürstenberg (4 October 1827 - 10 April 1902) was a Swedish art collector and merchant from a Jewish family.
Pontus supported artists in many ways, not only with food, room, clothes and art materials, but he also helped them to study abroad in places like Paris. He also would pay artist's debts for them. For this support Pontus received paintings and other pieces or arts. Without Pontus's direct and indirect patronage, artists like Carl Larsson, Ernst Josephson and Anders Zorn would not have been able to focus exclusively on their art.