National Gallery of Denmark

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Statens Museum for Kunst
File:SMK Entrance.jpg
Established 1896
Location Sølvgade 48
Copenhagen, Denmark
Type National gallery
Visitors 424,710 (2007)[1]
Director Mikkel Bogh[2]
Public transit access Bus stop: 'Georg Brandes Plads, Parkmuseerne'

Bus lines: 6A, 14, 26, 40, 42, 43, 184, 185, 150S, 173 E

Train: S-tog and regional train to Østerport and Nørreport station

Metro: Nørreport station
Website http://www.smk.dk/en/

National Gallery of Denmark (Danish: Statens Museum for Kunst, also known as "SMK") is the Danish national gallery located in the centre of Copenhagen. Entrance to the museum's permanent collections is free.[3]

The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches and handles Danish and foreign art dating from the 14th century to the present day.

Collections

The museum's collections constitute almost 9,000 paintings and sculptures, approximately 240,000 works of art on paper as well as more than 2,600 plaster casts of figures from ancient times, the middle-ages and the Renaissance. The major part of the museum's older collections comes from the art chambers of Danish kings.

File:In a Roman Osteria by Carl Bloch - Statens Museum for Kunst - DSC08213.JPG
'In a Roman Osteria' by Carl Bloch, 1866

European Art 1300–1800

The display of European Art 1300–1800 is a comprehensive collection of art over the 500-year period, featuring works by Mantegna, Cranach, Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt. The art is spread over thirteen rooms, and is the oldest art collection in Denmark, with a particular emphasis on Danish, Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, Spanish and German pieces.[4]

Danish and Nordic Art 1750–1900

Danish and Nordic Art 1750-1900 charts Scandinavian art from the beginnings of Danish painting through the ‘Golden Age’ to the birth of Modernism. It displays over 400 works through 24 galleries. It features work by Abildgaard, Eckersberg, Købke, Ring, and Hammershøi.[5]

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Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line), 1905

French Art 1900–1930

SMK gained its modern French art collection in 1928 when it was donated by the late collector Johannes Rump. This collection features some of the museum’s most famous pieces from artists such as Matisse, Piccasso, Derain and Braque. The collection was first offered to the SMK by Rump in 1923, but was rejected by the director Karl Madsen as he did not believe it to be of a high enough quality.[6]

Danish and International Art After 1900

Housed in the museum’s 1993 extension, this 20th and 21st century collection is predominantly focused on the most important examples of modern Danish art. A long corridor of paintings looking onto Østre Anlæg park works as a chronological overview of the work from this period, whilst the smaller galleries focus on specific artists or movements.[7]

The Royal Collection of Graphic Art

The Royal Collection of Graphic Art contains more than 240,000 works: copperprints, drawings, etchings, watercolours, lithographic works and other kinds of art on paper, dating from the 15th century to the present day. The beginnings of this collection were made around the time of Christian II. In his diary from 1521 the German painter Albrecht Dürer says he has given the King "the best pieces of all my prints".[8]

In 1843 the various works, which had so far been the king's private collection, were displayed to the public. It was then moved into the Statens Museum for Kunst when the first building was completed in 1896, along with The Royal Collection of Paintings and The Royal Cast Collection.[9]

Although the papers contain a great number of foreign works, Danish art constitutes the main part of the collection. This collection is open to the public through the Print Room, access to which must be booked in advance of arrival.[10]

The Royal Cast Collection

A window at the West India Warehouse

The Royal Cast Collection is held at the West India Warehouse, Toldbodgade 40, between The Little Mermaid and Nyhavn in Copenhagen. It consists of over 2,000 naked plaster casts of statues and reliefs from collections, museums, temples, churches, and public places throughout the world, from antiquity to the Renaissance. The art was first put on display in 1895 with the intention of edifying visitors about the progression of representations of the human form over time in parallel with growing social, political and aesthetic awareness in the Western world.[11]

At the start of the Second World War the art of antiquity became increasingly unfashionable, associated with an archaic artistic tradition. In 1966, as abstract art became more popular, the Royal Cast Collection was removed to a barn outside Copenhagen for storage and only revived in 1984 when it was removed to the West India Warehouse.[12]

History

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Interior - Statens Museum for Kunst

The collections of the Danish National Gallery originate in the Art Chamber (Danish: Kunstkammeret) of the Danish monarchs. When the German Gerhard Morell became Keeper of Frederick V's Art Chamber about 1750, he suggested that the king create a separate collection of paintings. To ensure that the collection was not inferior to those of other European royal houses and local counts, the king made large-scale purchases of Italian, Netherlandish and German paintings. The collection became particularly well provided with Flemish and Dutch art. The most important purchase during Morell's term as keeper was Christ as the Suffering Redeemer by Andrea Mantegna. 'Det Kongelige Billedgalleri' (Royal Art Gallery) was housed in Christiansborg Palace until 1884 when the castle burnt down.[13] It was not until the opening of the museum in 1896 that the art had a new home.[14]

Since then a great variety of purchases have been made. During the 19th century the works were almost exclusively by Danish artists, and for this reason the Museum has an unrivalled collection of paintings from the so-called Danish Golden Age. That the country was able to produce pictures of high artistic quality was something new, and a consequence of the establishment of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1754.

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The meeting of the old and new buildings

More recently, the collection has been influenced by generous donations and long-term loans. In 1928 Johannes Rump's large collection of early French Modernist paintings was donated to the Museum. This was followed by purchases of paintings and sculpture in the French tradition.[15]

Architecture

The original museum building was designed by Vilhelm Dahlerup and G.E.W. Møller and built 1889–1896 in a Historicist Italian Renaissance revival style.[16]

Towards the back of the museum is a large modern extension designed by the architects Anna Maria Indrio and Mads Møller from Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller. The extension was erected in 1998 to house the extensive modern art collection. The two buildings are connected by a glass panelled 'Street of Sculptures' walkway and theatre which stretches the entire length of the museum and looks out onto the Østre Anlæg park.[17] Talks, concerts and installations are all held in this area.

Gallery

  • St. Michael and the Dragon by unknown Spanish artist - Statens Museum for Kunst - DSC08174.JPG

    Unknown Spanish artist, St. Michael and the Dragon

  • Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Kreuzigung (Statens Museum for Kunst).jpg

    Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553), date unknown, Crucifixion (Kreuzigung)

  • Donato Bramante, Den hellige Christophorus (c. 1490).jpg

    Saint Christopher, by Donato Bramante, 1490

  • Bortførelse på en enhjørning.jpg

    Abduction on a Unicorn, by Albrecht Dürer, 1516

  • Paris' dom (Lucas Cranach (I)).jpg

    The Judgement of Paris, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1527

  • Kurfyrst Frederik den Vise (1463-1525) af Sachsen's jagt.jpg

    The Stag Hunt of the Elector Frederic the Wise of Saxony, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, probably after 1529

  • Venus og Cupido som honningtyv.jpg

    Venus and Cupid, the Honey Thief, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530

  • Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Melancholie (Statens Museum for Kunst).jpg

    Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532, Melancholie

  • Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder - Statens Museum for Kunst - DSC08170.JPG

    Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532, Portrait of Martin Luther

  • The Tax Collector and His Wife by Marinus van Reymerswale - Statens Museum for Kunst - DSC08147.JPG

    Marinus van Reymerswale, 1540, The moneychanger and his wife

  • Det fede køkken. "Voluptas Carnis".jpg

    The Fat Kitchen. An Allegory, Pieter Aertsen, 1565-1575

  • Det fede køkken. "Voluptas Carnis".jpg

    Pieter Aertsen, 1565-1575, The Fat Kitchen. An Allegory

  • Apollon and Diana punishing Niobe by Killing her Children, by Abraham Bloemaert, 1591

  • The Way to Calvary by Peter Brueghel the Younger - Statens Museum for Kunst - DSC08141.JPG

    Peter Brueghel the Younger, c.1605, The Way to Calvary

  • Hendrick Goltzius Cadmus Statens Museum for Kunst 1183.jpg

    Hendrick Goltzius, between 1573 and 1617, Cadmus slays the dragon

  • Blomsterbuket i en stenniche.jpg

    Bouquet of Flowers in a Stone Niche, Ambrosius Bosschaert, 1618

  • Buste af Camilla Barbadori. Moder til Pave Urban VIII Barberini.jpg

    Bust of Camilla Barbadori, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1619

  • Diego Velázquez, c.1630, Isabel de Borbón

  • Bebudelsen.jpg

    The Annunciation, by Francesco Solimena (unknown date)

  • Cyclamen purpurascens; Cyclamen hederifolium.jpg

    Cyclamen purpurascens; Cyclamen hederifolium, by de (Hans Simon Holtzbecker) 1649-1659

  • Den fortabte søn i selskab med kurtisaner.jpg

    The Prodigal Son Living with Harlots, by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (unknown date)

  • Gerhard Morell 1765 by Johann Salomon Wahl.jpg

    Gerhard Morell, by Johann Salomon Wahl, 1765

  • The Wounded Philoctetes, by Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, 1775

  • Amor patriae. Allegori på kærlighed til fædrelandet.jpg

    Amor patriae. Allegory symbolising patriotism, by Carl Frederik Stanley, 1777

  • Det russiske linieskib "Assow" og en fregat til ankers på Helsingør red.jpg

    The Russian ship of the line 'Assow' and a Frigate at Anchor in the Roads of Elsinore, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1828

  • Bretagne-pige ordner planter i et drivhus, by Anna Petersen, 1884

  • The Prison of Copenhagen, by Martinus Rørbye, 1831

  • Youth by Ditlev Blunck - Statens Museum for Kunst - DSC08249.JPG

    Ditlev Blunck, 1840–45, Youth, from the series The Four Ages of Man

  • Cathrine Jensen, f. Lorenzen, kunstnerens hustru med turban.jpg

    The Artist's Wife, Catherine Jensen, wearing a turban, Christian Albrecht Jensen, ca. 1842-4

  • Bøgeskov i maj. Motiv fra Iselingen.jpg

    A Beech Wood in May near Iselingen Manor, Zealand, by Peter Christian Skovgaard, 1857

  • Adam and Eve by Harald Slott-Moller - Statens Museum for Kunst - DSC08287.JPG

    Harald Slott-Moller, 1891, Adam and Eve

  • Dansk landskab 1891 by Harald Slott-Møller.jpg

    Danish Landscape, by Harald Slott-Møller, 1891

  • Artemis.jpg

    Artemis, by Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1893-4

  • Asiatisk Compagnis bygninger, set fra St. Annæ Gade.jpg

    The Buildings of the Asiatic Company, seen from St. Annæ Street, by Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1902

  • Henri Matisse, 1906, Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt

  • Henri Matisse, 1907–08, Le Luxe II

  • Modigliani alice.jpg

    Amedeo Modigliani, 1915, Alice

References

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