Ordrupgaard, a Danish Art Museum
Outside of Copenhagen, we have an excellent art museum called Ordrupgaard. It was initially a private home for an art collector and now a private art collection. The art is French Impressionism and Danish Golden Age art. The museum is undergoing reconstruction, and the art is out on travels to other museums. The French paintings are travelling abroad, and the Danish art came to our neighbourhood, a town called Holstebro. The name of the exhibition is called “100 Years of Ordrupgaard.”
Here a link to Wilhelm Hansen, the founder of the collection.
I would like to show you some examples of the art.
Theodor Philipsen 1908
Theodor Philipsen 1913
Theodor Philipsen, (1840-1920) painted 1889
Theodor Philipsen is regarded as a Danish impressionist.
Peter Hansen about 1900
Peter Hansen 1902
Peter Hansen 1881
In his time Peter Hansen’s art was considered ugly as his children were painted in a realistic way. He lived from 1868-1928.
A French artist Armand Guellaumin, 1841-1927 was among the Danish paintings
Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927
Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927
Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927
Johannes Larsen 1932
Johannes Larsen 1912
Johannes Larsen 1891, Pelicans at Zoo
Johannes Larsen 1867-1961, has his own museum in his former home in Funen. He painted birds and nature.
Wilhelm Hammershøj’s painting of the doors was put in a box of glass, so I had to use a photo from the museum. Wilhelm Hammershøj, 1864-1916.
Wilhelm-Hammershøi.-Hvide-døre.-1899-400×258 from the museum Ordrupgaard’s homepage
From one Heart to Another 
I have been quite taken with Vermeer, did they have any?
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Unfortunately, we don’t have any by Vermeer. Henry and I have travelled to many places to track his 30 paintings
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I can understand that – does this help?
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/vermeer_painting_part_one.html#.Wp0kZq3YiM8
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So fine thank you. We have still seven of them that we haven’t yet seen
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I know you’ll get to them eventually!
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Not the one in Tokyo though. I don’t have faith for going that far. My favorite is at Washington National Gallery. The woman who weighs the pearls
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That seems to be the favorite.
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Here is one of my first posts and beneath the post is one more on Vermeer https://mariaholm.blog/2014/12/30/vermeer-delft/
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Maria and I are too very fascinated by Vermeer. I have made a blog post of our “hunt” so far – well in Danish. https://henryhogh22.com/2016/03/14/vores-fascination-og-jagt-paa-vermeers-paintings/
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Thanks, I’ll let Google translate it for me.
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I love the cows and horses in the first two paintings.
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That painter was my mother’s favorite too
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It’s interesting to see how Impressionism travelled away from France, and how it was adapted to take on a local style. I studied the history of art at university and I have to say I’ve never heard of any of these artists before!
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I am so glad I could inspire you. I hadn’t heard of the French artist either
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I’ve just looked up Guillaumin on Wikipedia. Apparently he exhibited at 6 of the 8 Impressionist shows in the 1870s and 1880s – he didn’t cross my radar though, and that was the main period I studied! My tutor curated an Impressionist exhibition at the Royal Academy in London whilst I was at uni, and I expect I somehow missed something, as I doubt that my tutor would have left any painter out – assuming he could get permission to show their work. Mea culpa!
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The museum’s French collection is on a tour abroad and I was surprised this artist was with the Danish painters. Maybe he is not as popular as the well known. But I liked him
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I can see why you did. A pity you couldn’t see the rest of the French art – maybe there will be a chance when it returns from its travels.
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