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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 .
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.
Danish art historians (24 P) P. Danish paintings (17 C, 4 P) Photography in Denmark (3 C, 2 P) ... Runestone styles; S. Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism;
H. Tønnies: Jens Bangs Stenhus in Aalborg (1890). The technique of carte de visite photography was brought to Denmark by Rudolph Striegler in 1860. It spread rapidly and by the 1870s provided a cheap and attractive alternative to portrait painting for photographers such as Ludvig Grundtvig (1836–1901) and Adolph Lønborg (1835–1916) in Copenhagen, and Heinrich Tønnies (1856–1903) who ...
The Danish queen celebrated her golden jubilee this year. Here, take a look back at Queen Margrethe's life—from her childhood in Copenhagen through her annual summer vacation in France.
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]
Here, the best photos of the Danish royals through the years. January 2024. ... Patrick van Katwijk - Getty Images. October 2023. Prince Christian, the future heir to the throne, was joined by his ...