Fuglsang Art Museum
 View from the southwest of the entrance (2013) |
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| place | Toreby , Lolland , Denmark |
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| architect | Tony Fretton |
| opening | January 26, 2008 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 29,300 (2014) |
| management |
Anne Højer Petersen
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The Fuglsang Art Museum [ fuːlsɑŋˀ ] is a museum for Danish painting and sculpture on Guldborgsund on the island of Lolland . The collection was founded in 1890 as part of the Lolland-Falster Abbey Museum and today includes paintings , watercolors , graphics and sculptures by Danish artists from the end of the 18th century to the present day. The focus is on the period from 1890 to 1950. The Fuglsang Art Museum regularly presents special exhibitions.
The exhibition building was built in 2006/07 to designs by British architect Tony Fretton. It is in the immediate vicinity of the Fuglsang manor , which the museum took on in 2007.
The municipalities of Guldborgsund , Lolland and Vordingborg are represented in the museum board of trustees. About half of the budget comes from state and municipal grants.
Fuglsang Art Museum (since 2008)
Planning
The intention to build a new museum had existed for a long time, but the realization of this project could only begin when the Realdania Foundation made available a sum of 50 million DKK (about 6.7 million €) to build one in 2003 Museum on the Fuglsang estate. Thereupon the region (Storstrøms Amt) and the EU pledged further funds for the construction and operation of the museum. Det Classenske Fideicommis, who owned the Fuglsang property, agreed to donate part of the property free of charge for building the museum. Further support came from the Fuglsang cultural center, which had existed since the middle of the 19th century.
From 2004, the planning and construction was carried out by a Bygningsfond established for this purpose, which is also the current owner of the museum. The construction project was put out to tender at the end of December 2004 with the specifications of the museum directorate - three different tours for the various needs of the visitors. One Swiss, one British and three Danish architectural proposals were received. In May 2005, the unanimous result of the decision committee was announced and the English architect Tony Fretton was awarded the contract for the new Fuglsang Art Museum, whose construction began on May 7, 2006 completed by 2007 and 26 January 2008 in the presence of Queen Margrethe the public was handed over.
Building and park
The flat building designed by Fretton, stretched in an east-west direction, has a floor area of 2,500 square meters. The facade is made of whitewashed bricks, three square skylights are bricked with gray bricks. To the west next to the museum is the former blacksmith's shop and barn, and to the east down to Guldborgsund there is farmland.
The Fuglsang manor house, surrounded by a moat and built in 1869 by the landowner Rolf Viggo de Neergaard (1837-1915), is located about 300 meters to the south-southwest in a 30-hectare park . In 1885 he married Bodil Hartmann (1867–1959), the daughter of the Danish composer Emil Hartmann . The founding of the Fuglsang cultural center , which still exists today, goes back to this music and art loving couple .
For the architecture and the successful integration into the landscape, the Fuglsang Art Museum received the RIBA European Award in 2009 and was nominated for the Stirling Prize in the same year .
Spaces
In front of the entrance to the museum is a covered, open cube structure made of metal. The entrance area is light and transparent through glass panes from floor to ceiling. In the publicly accessible foyer on the left there is a small café , on the right is the reception with the cash desk and the museum shop. The sanitary facilities and the cloakroom are also located in the foyer. On the north side of the ground floor, behind the café, there is a small lecture room and an art classroom. Behind the reception, a staircase leads to the library and the office space for the staff on the first floor.
A glass door leads from the foyer into a wide corridor that runs through the whole building and at the front of which there is an unobstructed view of the surrounding nature through three panoramic panes to the east, south and west.
The exhibition rooms are located on both sides of the corridor, which also houses exhibits:
on the south side there are five small, windowless galleries that are inspired by the architecture of Fuglsang Herregård, which is next to the museum. In the first three rooms, which are illuminated by the gray walled skylights that are visible from the outside, works by individual artists from the period from 1780 to 1900 are on display.
On the north side of the corridor there are two large exhibition rooms, some of which are lit from above through skylights.
Art collection
The Fuglsang Art Museum has a significant and steadily expanding collection of Danish art from the late 18th century to modern times. The collection currently comprises 3573 works by 806 artists.
painting
Few of the paintings date from the end of the 18th to the late mid-19th century. These include works of Danish national romanticism ( Guldalder ) by Wilhelm Bendz (1804–1832), Lorenz Frølich (1820–1908; history painter) , Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818–1848; landscape painter) and PC Skovgaard (1817–1875).
The focus of the collection includes paintings from the end of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century. This also includes the Skagen painters . A (incomplete) selection of other painters includes Ludvig Abelin Schou (1838–1867; mythology and portrait painter ), Theodor Philipsen (1840–1920; animal and nature painter), Kristian Zahrtmann (1843–1917; naturalism, realism, history painter ), Peter Alfred Schou (1844–1914; portrait and mood painter, "Funen painter"), LA Ring (1854–1933, mood (village life) and landscape painter), Joakim Skovgaard (1856–1933; landscape and genre painter, religious subjects), Anna Ancher (1859–1935; “Skagen painter”), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916; representative of Danish symbolism), Oluf Hartmann (1879–1910, brother of Bodil Hartmann; painted subjects related to Fuglsang, Danish modernist), many paintings by Olaf Rude (1886–1957; nature painter, Danish modernist, “Bornholm painter”), Ole Kielberg (1911–1985; nature and landscape painter) and Sven Dalsgaard (1914–1999; representatives of modernism, naturalism and surrealism and symbolism).
plastic
The museum has an inventory of more than 200 sculptures, mostly smaller formats (statuettes, busts, etc.) from the end of the 19th century to around 1950; the focus is on the years 1930–1950. Works by Gottfred Eickhoff (1902–1982) are most frequently represented.
Works of art on paper
The museum has almost 3,000 drawings and watercolors in its collection. The focus is on works from the 20th century, especially the works of the graphic artist Palle Nielsen are worth seeing.
History of origin
The Fuglsang Art Museum has operated under different names in the 125 years of its existence. From 1890 to 2007 the museum was located in Maribo . In 2008 it opened at its new location on the east coast of the island of Lolland.
Lolland-Falsters Abbey Museum (1890–1965)
 
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Old and new location: Maribo and Fuglsang |
In the 1880s, consideration was given to establishing a museum of regional history in Maribo . This museum was opened in 1890 under the name Lolland-Falsters Stiftsmuseum . On the initiative and with the support of Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914), whose father, the Danish industrialist Jacob Christian Jacobsen (1811–1887), had already been an art collector, the museum had an art section on the first floor. There were plaster casts of sculptures made mainly in Denmark and loaned paintings, for example from the collection of paintings in Statens Museum for Kunst .
From the turn of the century and into the 1940s, the art collection grew through systematic acquisitions ( e.g. paintings by Skagen and Funen painters) and through donations from the Carlsberg Foundation (around 80 works). As early as the 1930s, plans were drawn up to expand the exhibition rooms. In 1940, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, these plans were revised and donations were collected. From 1942 to 1944, a large gallery and four smaller exhibition rooms as well as some function rooms for museum employees were added to the plans by the architect and vice chairman of the museum administration, Einar Ørnsholt (1887–1978) .
Lolland-Falsters Art Museum (1966–1989)
In 1965 a Ministry of Culture was established in Denmark, which by decree awarded state grants for purchases and maintenance to smaller museums in the province. As part of this new state funding for culture, the museum received a new management under Henrik Hertig (1915–2007) in 1966 and was reorganized as the Lolland-Falsters Art Museum . Under Hertig, an enterprising art lover who remained in office until 1979, the collection of drawings in particular increased.
In the following years, the interior designer Rigmor Andersen (1903–1995) designed a graphic room in the column gallery connecting the original museum with the new extension, based on the Königliche Kupferstichsammlung ( Det Kongelige Kobberstiksamling ) in Statens Museum for Kunst. The inauguration of this room, which was not lit by daylight to protect the graphics and in which the drawings were shown in specially designed showcases made of oak, took place in 1970.
In 1979, the then 34-year-old Claus Ohlsen became the first art historian to head the art museum. With a relatively small budget, Olsen mainly acquired contemporary art from established painters and young Danish artists.
In 1984, the art collector Erik C. Mengel (1908–1983) bequeathed his art collection to the museum with 166 works - mainly paintings, some sculptures and drawings - from the period 1940 to 1960, making the museum an addition to Danish interpretations of abstract expressionism , Naturalism , surrealism and constructive arts .
When the Danish municipalities were reformed and enlarged in 1970, the Lolland-Falster Art Museum expanded its sphere of activity in 1974 to include the newly created Storstrøms Office . Claus Olsen was followed in 1987 by the 35-year-old art historian Nils Ohrt.
Storstrøms Art Museum (1989-2007)
Finally, the museum was renamed Storstrøms Kunstmuseum in 1989. Art purchases became rarer; if they did, it was in larger campaigns. Under Ohrt, paintings from the last third of the 19th century were added to the collection. Every two to three years, special exhibitions of young artists from the region take place.
In the 1990s the financial situation became increasingly difficult and in 1995 Ohrt left the post of director. At the end of 1996 the museum administration handed over the reins to Anne Højer Petersen, who had just finished her studies in art history and started working as a consultant for the museum. At that time, the workforce consisted only of the director, a curator and a secretary. As a result, special exhibitions became rarer.
In the years that followed, fundraising campaigns were carried out to promote research, collaborations with other museums were established (for example with the Fyn Art Museum and the Odense Municipal Museum), publications were written about the museum and new exhibitions were organized that did not only focus on the artistic aspect across the board . The exhibition Himlens spejl - skyer og vejrlig i dansk painter 1770–1880 ( The mirror of the sky - clouds and weather in Danish painting 1770–1880 ) aroused great interest and was launched in autumn 2003 on the initiative of the Royal Danish Embassy in Paris Maison du Danemark exhibited, which also resulted in contacts with the management of the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay .
Further international exhibitions followed, for example in 2006 in the Berlin Bröhan Museum on the work of Johan Rohde (1856–1935).
In 2005 the curator position was filled with an educational mandate, and another art historian was added, who was responsible for cataloging the works of art. This became particularly important when the Danish Cultural Heritage Authority ( Kulturarvsstyrelsen ) made the electronic registration and communication system Regin Kunst compulsory in 2007 , which required the nationwide registration of art historical information and made it possible to exchange information about it.
Exhibitions, research and other activities
The Fuglsang Art Museum annually shows various thematic special exhibitions that are put together from the works available there.
Museum employees carry out their own research projects in cooperation with other museums, for example with the Ribe Art Museum, with which the Fuglsang Art Museum entered into a strategic partnership for the years 2011 to 2014. In February 2009, Gertrud Oelsner, curator of the Fuglsang Art Museum, and Karina Lykke Grand, curator of the Skovgaard Museum , decided to undertake a joint research project in order to record the complete works of Skovgaard and to present and interpret his pioneering work in Danish landscape painting and its importance in the Golden Age. Other partners in art research are universities, publishers and other institutions.
literature
- Tine Nielsen Fabienke: Vores bedste stykker ( Our Best Pieces - Our best pieces ) Toreby 2008 catalog Fuglsang Kunstmuseum.
- Gertrud Hvidberg Hansen u. Lise Serritslev Petersen: Himlens spejl. Skyer Og Vejrlig I Dansk Maleri 1770-1880 , Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2002, ISBN 978-87-7838-738-7 .
Web links
- Museum website (Danish, English, German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Free translation, e.g. Trust Foundation of (Major General Johan Frederik) Classen
- ↑ Free translation, e.g. building funds
- ↑ Jørgen Steens: Nyt Kunstmuseum efter 117 år , Krisdeligt Dagblad, January 26, 2008
- ↑ a b c d Fuglsang Art Museum / Tony Fretton Architects , ArchDaily, May 7, 2011 (engl.); Description of the museum with floor plans and room plans and photographs by Helene Binet.
- ↑ History of Fuglsang Herregård (Danish) ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History of the Fuglsang Cultural Center (Danish) ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist 2009 . RIBA. Archived from the original on September 30, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 21, 2009.
- ↑ List of works of art in the Fuglsang Art Museum in Kunstindeks Danmark (accessed on July 21, 2014)
- ↑ List of the artists represented in the Fuglsang Art Museum in Kunstindeks Danmark (accessed on July 21, 2014)
- ↑ The selection of these prints was determined by Carl Jacobsen's taste in art.
- ↑ These showcases are still used today in the new Fuglsang Art Museum.
- ↑ Claus Olsen, Erik C. Mengel: Erik C. Mengel's samling . Lolland-Falsters Art Museum, 1987, ISBN 978-87-89118-00-0 .
- ↑ The data entered with Regin Kunst - information about artists, works and museums - can be called up via the Kunstindeks Danmark .
- ^ Dansk art historian Forening: En revurdering af PC Skovgaard og hans kunst (Danish)
Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 25.8 " N , 11 ° 47 ′ 58.5" E