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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 .
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.
Ejnar Nielsen (9 July 1872 – 21 July 1956) was a Danish painter and illustrator, who was a central proponent of Symbolist painting in Danish art. He is also known for his large mosaic on Stærekassen , an extension to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen .
A prominent Danish art critic, Karl Madsen, stated that Bloch reached higher toward the great heaven of art than all other Danish art up to that date. Madsen also said "If there is an Elysium, where the giant, rich, warm and noble artist souls meet, there Carl Bloch will sit among the noblest of them all!". [2]
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.
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).
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
P.S. Krøyer: Hip, Hip, Hurrah! (1888) depicting the group's festivities Michael Ancher: A Stroll on the Beach (1896). The Skagen Painters (Danish: Skagensmalerne) were a group of Scandinavian artists who gathered in the village of Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, from the late 1870s until the turn of the century.