Ordrupgaard Museum

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Detailed view of the extension by Zaha Hadid

The Ordrupgaard Museum ( Danish Ordrupgaardsamlingen ) is an art museum in the Danish Charlottenlund .

location

The museum is located in Charlottenlund, around 12 kilometers north of Copenhagen . In a spacious park there is a manor house with a gallery building, winter garden and stables, and since 2005 a modern extension by the star architect Zaha Hadid . The house of the Danish designer Finn Juhl is located on a neighboring property , which is also part of the museum and can be visited.

history

The house was built in 1916–1918 for Wilhelm Hansen (1868–1936), the director of the Hafnia insurance company. Together with his wife Henny Hansen (1870–1951), from 1892 onwards he brought together an extensive collection of paintings with Danish and French artists of the 19th century. In 1922, Hansen ran into financial difficulties and was forced to sell 76 important paintings. He was annoyed that the Danish state did not secure these paintings for Danish museums and that most of them had to be sold abroad. He had abandoned the original idea of ​​donating the house and collection to the Danish state and died without a will. It is thanks to the widow Henny Hansen that the painting collection and the property were bequeathed to the Danish nation after all. Two years after her death, the Ordrupgaard Museum was opened in 1953.

collection

Danish painting of the 19th century is represented by painters such as Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg , Christen Købke , Johan Thomas Lundbye , Lauritz Andersen Ring and Vilhelm Hammershøi . The French art collection begins with Ingres , Delacroix and Daumier . There are also works by Corot , Courbet , Boudin and Daubigny . Manet , Degas , Monet , Sisley , Morisot , Pissarro , Renoir and Gauguin are particularly represented with paintings. The artists Cezanne and Matisse conclude . Furniture and handicrafts can also be seen in the manor house, and the spacious property is used as a sculpture park.

Illustrations

  • Vilhelm Hammershøi:
    Støvkornenes dans i solstrålerne

  • Christen Købke:
    View of Dosseringen

  • Édouard Manet:
    Femme à la Jarretière

  • Claude Monet:
    Waterloo Bridge

  • Alfred Sisley:
    Factory on the banks of the Seine

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
    Young people in the street

  • Paul Gauguin:
    Portrait of a young woman

  • Paul Cezanne:
    Women bathing

Exhibitions

The museum regularly holds special exhibitions with Danish or international artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.

literature

  • Christofer Conrad, Andreas Henning, Guido Messling: Renoir, Gauguin, Degas ..., Treasures of the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen . Hatje Cantz Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-7757-1382-4
  • Mikael Wivel : Ordrupgaard, Selected works . Ordrupgaard 1993, ISBN 87-88692-09-4
  • Haavard Rostrup: Histoire du Musée d'Ordrupgaard, 1918-1978: D'aprés des documents inédits . Gyldendal 1981, ISBN 87-981162-0-7
  • Thomas Lederballe, Rebecca Rabinow: The Age of Impressionism. European Paintings from Ordrupgaard . Ordrupgaard 2002, ISBN 87-88692-27-2

Web links

Commons : Ordrupgaard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZEIT Online : In the executive chair in front of the fireplace , accessed on March 22, 2017

Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 1.2 ″  N , 12 ° 33 ′ 47.5 ″  E