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Danish art is the visual arts produced in Denmark or by Danish artists. It goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot . For many early periods, it is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia .
The National Gallery of Denmark (Danish: Statens Museum for Kunst, also known as "SMK", literally State Museum for Art) is the Danish national gallery, located in the centre of Copenhagen. [2] The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches and handles Danish and foreign art dating from the 14th century to the present day.
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Theobald Stein (1829–1901), Ludvig Holberg statue outside the Royal Danish Theatre Morten Stræde (born 1956), organic and geometric works Leif Sylvester Petersen (born 1940), art in public spaces
Grand historical art gave way to more widely appealing but less pretentious genre paintings and landscapes. [4] The main period of the Golden Age took place during the first half of the nineteenth century. Around that time, Danish culture suffered from the outbreak of the First Schleswig War (1848–1851) and then the Second one in 1864.
The development of Danish sculpture was greatly influenced in the mid-18th century by the French sculptor Jacques Saly (1717–1776), who was invited by the Danish government in 1752 to create a statue of King Frederik V. [7] Shortly after the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts was founded in March 1754, Saly was appointed as its director ...
This is a list of Danish painters who were born in or whose creative production is associated with Denmark This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig (now in Aabenraa Municipality, in the southern part of Jutland in Denmark).