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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 oldest frescos, dating back to the 12th century, were painted in the Romanesque style by artists from elsewhere in Europe but those from the 14th century and thereafter are in the Gothic style which was used by native Danish painters. It is these that are considered to be the most important for Danish art and culture. [2]
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 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.
Neoclassicism came initially from France but was slowly adopted by native Danish architects who increasingly participated in defining architectural style. A productive period of Historicism merged into the 19th century National Romantic style. In the 1960s, Danish architects entered the world scene with their highly successful Functionalism.
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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.
Rock art in Denmark (Danish: Helleristninger or Halristinger) differs significantly from that of the Scandinavian peninsula. Carvings are smaller, focused on agriculture (Danish: Jordbruksristninger), rarely figural. Some examples are engraved on megaliths or cists, but most on small glacial erratics.