The
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek with its beautiful sub-tropical Winter
Garden and extensive collections of sculptures
and paintings surrounded by a museum building created
in the fine art of classicism and inaugurated in 1897,
is a place of art and culture in Copenhagen that must be experienced.
| Picture
of the Glyptotek building in 1910. Architect Vilhelm Dahlerup
created the museum's first wing, which was inaugurated
in 1897 and later the musem was extended with a new wing
in 1906 to houses the collection of ancient arts. |
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| One
of the exhibitions rooms in 1905. The collection is built
around the personal art collection of Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914),
the founder of the Ny Carlsberg Breweries in 1871 and
the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1897. |
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The
Danish brewer Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914) and owner
of Carlsberg brewery was the founder of the Glyptotek,
who created one of the largest private collections of Danish
and French paintings and sculptures of
his time, together with a gallery of antiquities from Egypt
and the Mediterranean area.
Danish
sculptures in Neo-Classicism style in one of
the rooms at the Glyptotek. |
A
wide collection of French sculptures in the Salon Sculpture
hall. |
A
“glyptotheca” is a building or room devoted to works
of sculpture and The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek houses more than 10,000
works and has the largest collection of ancient art in
Northern Europe, which makes it one of the most
popular art museums in Denmark.
| The
sculptor of the Water Mother from 1921 by Kai Nielsen
is placed in the Winter Garden. The original was replaced
by a new one in 2003. |
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| A
broad collection of paintings by world famous Impressionists
and Post Impressionists can be seen at the Glyptotek. |
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A
broad collection of paintings by famous Impressionists like Monet,
Renoir, Degas, Cézanne and leading Post
Impressionists van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec,
Paul Gauguin etc., are well represented too and on display
in the new building.
The
entire art collection was donated to the public
in 1899 by Carl Jacobsen and his
wife Ottilia as a gift together with the museum
building.
| The
beautiful sub-tropical Winter Garden, where tropical palms
and climber flourish under a huge dome of cast iron and
glass gives the visitors a refreshing and overwhelming
experience. |
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| The
founder of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek brewer Carl Jacobsen
- painted in 1893 by August Jerndorff. The painting is
displayed at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg
Castle. |
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Guided
tours
The Glyptotek offers a number of public guided tours all year round.
These are free to the museum’s customers.
Location
The Glyptotek is located beside Tivoli - Town Hall - Central Station
and near the pedestrian street "Strøget".
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Ny
Carlsberg Glyptotek
Address:
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Dantes Plads 7
1556 Copenhagen V
Busses: 1A - 2A - 5A - 12 - 15 - 33 - 40 - 65E - 250S
Trains - Central Station
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