Articles

The topology of the image series. The...

What is the connection between a single image and the series that includes it? By using Kandinsky’s Small Worlds as an example this article investigates...

Af: Jesper Svenningsen

A national collection on the drawing board....

The idea of having a central collection of Danish drawings first arose back in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the earliest overtures...

Af: Eva de la Fuente Pedersen

Girolamo Troppa’s ‘Four portraits of ancient philosophers’

Can Girolamo Troppa’s series be regarded as a visualisation of divine inspiration? And who are the four ‘philosophers’? The article discusses these questions, but also...

Af: Nikolaj Brandt and Alec Due

A humourist in the shadow of the...

How closely connected was Storm P. to the German nationalist movements in the 1930s and 1940s – was he a Nazi sympathiser? The article delves...

Af: Peter van der Meijden

Message in a Bottle to Systembolaget

Knud Pedersen came up with ideas and always realised them in the same distinctive way: one step at a time. His Systembolaget project began as...

Af: Eva de la Fuente Pedersen

Salvator Rosa’s Democritus and Diogenes in Copenhagen

Can Salvator Rosa’s paintings of Democritus and Diogenes be seen as reflections of the artist’s self-image as a Stoic painter-philosopher and of his endeavour to...

Af: Cecil Krarup Andersen | Michelle Taube | Anna Vila | Elizabeth Baadsgaard

Zinc, Paint loss and Harmony in blue

Degradation problems in Peder Severin Krøyer's paintings and the possible role of zinc white.

Af: Anna Schram Vejlby

The Jew that Disappeared: C.W. Eckersberg and...

Eckersberg's satire on the subject of playing the lottery underwent a significant change from drawing to graphic series; a development that may well have saved...

Af: Hanne Abildgaard

“The Barber Painter”: John Christensen – a...

The ‘Barber Painter’ John Christensen went from being a celebrated figure in the Danish art world to being a marginalized character in art history. Here...

Af: Jesper Svenningsen

For pleasure and for prizes. Danish plein-air...

The introduction of plein-air painting in Denmark in the 1820s is traditionally attributed Eckersberg, but in fact students at the art academy were behind the...

img Lundstrøm Beneath the Surface: </br> The Many Steps towards Perfect Beauty

Af: Clara Bratt Lauridsen, Ellen Egemose, Mads Svanborg Peters, Ayoub Laghrissi, Arkadiusz Goszczak, Bjarke Jørgensen, Jacek Fiutowski

Lundstrøm Beneath the Surface: The Many Steps...

Vilhelm Lundstrøm is known for his rigorous structured compositions on blue backgrounds. But how did he arrive at the finished motif, and did he favour...