Ordrupgaard
The Ordrupgaard Museum is an art museum in the Danish Charlottenlund.
Location
The museum is located in Charlottenlund, around 12 kilometers north of Copenhagen. In a large park are a mansion with gallery building, conservatory and stables, and since 2005 a modern extension of the star architect Zaha Hadid.
History
The house was 1916-1918 for Wilhelm Hansen (1868-1936), director of the Hafnia Insurance Company built over the years. Together with his wife Henny Hansen (1870-1951) he wore in 1892 an extensive collection of paintings by Danish and French artists of the 19th century together. 1922 Hansen fell temporarily into financial difficulties and was forced to sell 75 major paintings. He was upset that the Danish state secured these pictures for Danish museums and they had to be sold for the most part abroad. The original idea of the house and collection to donate the Danish state later, he had dropped and died intestate. The Henny Hansen widow, it is thanks to them that the collection of paintings and the estate were still bequeathed to the Danish nation. Two years after her death the Ordrupgaard museum was opened in 1953.
Collection
The Danish painting of the 19th century is represented by painters such as Christoffer Wilhelm Eckerberg, Christians Købke, Johann Thomas Lundbye, LA Ring and Vilhelm Hammershøi. The collection of French art begins with Ingres, Delacroix, and Daumier. There are also works by Corot, Courbet, Boudin, and Daubigny. Especially numerous Manet, Degas, Monet, Sisley, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, and Gauguin are represented with paintings. It concludes with the artists Cezanne and Matisse. The mansion will also have to see furniture and handicrafts. The extensive park a sculpture park has been created in recent years.
Christians Købke: View of Dosseringen
Édouard Manet: Femme à la Jarretière
Claude Monet: Waterloo Bridge
Alfred Sisley: Factory on the banks of the Seine
Pierre- Auguste Renoir: Young people in the street
Paul Gauguin: Portrait of a young woman
Exhibitions
The Ordrupgaard Museum regularly organizes temporary exhibitions of Danish and international artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.