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| Established | 1897; 129 years ago (1897) |
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| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Coordinates | 55°40′21″N12°34′19″E / 55.6725°N 12.571944444444°E /55.6725; 12.571944444444 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Key holdings | Rodin,Little Dancer of Fourteen Years,Woman with a Flower |
| Collections | Ancient Greek sculpture,Roman sculpture,Post-impressionists,Danish Golden Age |
| Collection size | >10,000 |
| Visitors | 514,608 (2019)[1] |
| Founder | Carl Jacobsen |
| Director | Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen |
| Chairperson | Christine Buhl Andersen |
| Architect | Vilhelm Dahlerup (1897),Hack Kampmann (1906),Henning Larsen (1996) |
| Website | www |
TheNy Carlsberg Glyptotek ("ny" means "new" in Danish; "Glyptotek" comes from the Greek rootglyphein, to carve, andtheke, storing place), commonly known simply asGlyptoteket, is anart museum inCopenhagen, Denmark. The collection represents the private art collection ofCarl Jacobsen (1842–1914), the son of the founder of theCarlsberg Breweries.
Primarily a sculpture museum, as indicated by the name, the focal point of the museum is antique sculpture from the ancient cultures around theMediterranean, including Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as moremodern sculptures such as a collection ofAuguste Rodin's works, considered to be the most important outside France.[2] However, the museum is equally noted for its collection of paintings that includes an extensive collection ofFrench impressionists andPost-impressionists as well asDanish Golden Age paintings.
The French Collection includes works by painters such asJacques-Louis David,Monet,Pissarro,Renoir,Degas andCézanne, as well as those byPost-impressionists such asvan Gogh,Gauguin,Toulouse-Lautrec andBonnard. The museum's collection includes all the bronze sculptures ofDegas, including the series of dancers. Numerous works by Norwegian-Danish sculptorStephan Sinding are featured prominently in various sections of the museum.
Carl Jacobsen was a dedicated art collector. He was particularly interested in antique art, but over the years he also acquired a considerable collection of French and Danish sculptures. When hisprivate villa in 1882 was extended with a winter garden, sculptures soon outnumbered plants in it. The same year the collection was opened to the public. In the following years the museum was expanded on a number of occasions to meet the need for more space for his steadily growing collections. In 1885 his 'house museum' had grown to a total of 19galleries, the first 14 of which had been designed by Vilhelm Dahlerup while Hack Kampmann had built the last four as well as conducted a redesign of the winter garden.[3]
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In spite of the many extensions, it was finally clear the existing premises were inadequate and that a new building was needed. On 8 March 1888 Carl Jacobsen donated his collection to the Danish State and the City of Copenhagen on condition that they provided a suitable building for its exhibition. Copenhagen'sold fortifications had recently been abandoned and a site was chosen on aravelin outsideHolcks Bastion in the city'sWestern Rampart, just south of theTivoli Gardens which had been founded in 1843.[4] Jacobsen was displeased with the location which he found to be too far from the city centre and he had also reservations about the proximity of Tivoli which he found common. Instead he wanted a building on the emergingnew city hall square, yet in the end he accepted.[5]
It was Carl Jacobsen who chose the name for the museum, with inspiration fromLudwig I'sGlyptothek inMunich, as well asVilhelm Dahlerup as the architect for the assignment. Themoat around the radan was filled and the new museum opened first on 1 May 1897. At first it only included Jacobsen's modern collection with French and Danish works from the 18th century.
In January 1899 Carl Jacobsen donated his collection of Antique art to the museum which made an expansion necessary. It was designed byHack Kampmann while Dahlerup designed a winter garden which connected the new wing to the old building. It was inaugurated in 1906.
In 1996 the museum was once again extended, this time with an infill constructed in one of its courtyards to the design ofHenning Larsen.[6] In 2006, the building underwent a major renovation programme under the direction of Danish architectsDissing + Weitling.[7] andBonde Ljungar Arkitekter MAA.[8]
The building is often noted for its elegance in its own right and the synthesis it creates with the works of art.
TheDahlerup Wing, the oldest part of the museum, is a lavishhistoricist building. The façade is in red brick with polishedgranitecolumns in aVenetian renaissance style. It houses the French and Danish collections.
TheKampmann Wing is a more simple,neo-classical building, built as a series of galleries around a central auditorium used for lectures, small concerts, symposiums and poetry readings.
The two wings are connected by the Winter Garden withmosaic floors, tall palms, a fountain and topped by a dome made in copper and wrought iron.
TheHenning Larsen Wing is a minimalistic infill, built in a former inner courtyard and affording access to the roof.Official meetings and banquets sometimes take place in the Glyptotek, such as the certification of Polio-free Europe, 21 June 2002.
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek's collections comprise more than 10,000 works of art.
The Antique collection displays sculptures and other antiquities from the ancient cultures around theMediterranean.
The extensive Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collection comprises marble statues, smallterra cotta statues,reliefs, pottery and other artifacts. They include 950 sculptures and Etruscan antiquities that were purchased by German archaeologistWolfgang Helbig, Theidoit Jacobsen's broker in Rome for 25 years.[9]
The Egyptian Collection comprises more than 1,900 pieces, dating from 3000 BCE to the 1st century CE and representing bothAncient Egypt, theMiddle Kingdom and theRoman Period. It was founded in 1882 when Carl Jacobsen made his first Egyptian acquisition, aSarcophagus purchased from the Egyptian Museum inCairo. Many of the objects in the collection were augmented when the Ny Carlsberg Foundation sponsored excavations in Egypt in the beginning of the 20th century led by the EnglishEgyptologistW. M. F. Petrie.[10] The holdings include severalmummies, displayed in acrypt-like gallery below the normal galleries.
The Near Eastern Collection spans a period of 7150 years, the oldest artifact being from 6500 BCE and the youngest being from 650 CE, featuring such cultures as theLevant,Mesopotamia,Anatolia andPersia.
The main focus of the French Collection is 19th-century French painting and sculpture. The painting collection contains works by such painters asDavid andManet, as well as a large collection of Impressionist painters such asMonet,Cézanne andBonnard. The single painter represented with most paintings isPaul Gauguin with more than 40 works. The museum also holds a large collection of French 19th-century sculpture by artists such asCarpeaux andRodin, the Rodin collection being one of the largest in the world, as well as a complete collection ofDegas' bronze sculptures.[11]
The Danish Collection contains a large collection of Danish Golden Age paintings by painters such asEckersberg,Købke andLundbye. It also contains the largest representation ofDanish Golden Age Sculpture in the country.
The European Collection comprises works from the 18th to the 20th century. Represented sculptors include Neoclassicists such asCanova,Sergel,Carstens,Flaxman,Rauch andBaily, as well as Modernists likeMeunier,Klinger,Picasso andGiacometti.
The collection also comprises a small collection of Modern paintings of artists such asArp,Ernst,Miró,Poliakoff andGilioli.
The Auditorium is mainly used for classical concerts, including theHelge Jacobsen concert series.Helge Jacobsen Concerts have included the AustrianHagen Quartet,[12] the Russian violinistAlina Ibragimova, the French pianistCédric Tiberghien, the Russian baritonSergei Leiferkus,[13] the FrenchYsaÿe Quartet[14] and German tenorJonas Kaufmann[15] among others.
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is in general noted for its good acoustics, both in the auditorium and in the surrounding long halls. The Auditorium has been used as a rehearsal room by theEarly music vocal ensembleMusica Ficta, often within opening hours of the museum, occasionally adding music to the museum experience, and it has also regularly performed concerts, both in the Auditorium and the surrounding halls.[16] Pioneerovertone singerDavid Hykes in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1997.[16]
Occasionally the Auditorium is also used for other musical genres, such as the DanishKlezmer groupMames Babegenush.[17]
The Auditorium is also used for other cultural events, such as poetry readings, lectures and debates.
The museum is used as a location in the filmsStjerneskud (1947),Fodboldpræsten (1951),Dorte (1951),Mød mig på Cassiopeia (1951),Bruden fra Dragstrup (1955) andDen kære familie (1962).[18]
The building was the inspiration for the set design of the Valkyries' Rock inKasper Holten's 2006 production ofWagner'sDer Ring des Nibelungen at theCopenhagen Opera House.
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