Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is a Glyptothèque of Copenhagen, the Capitale of the Denmark. Its Collection S was made up from those of Carl Jacobsen, the son of the founder of the Brasserie Carlsberg. They include Egyptian antiquities , Greek and Roman as well as Sculpture S romantic and Peinture S impressionist and post-impressionists.

Structure

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is located in the Center-ville of Copenhagen in a building which is separated from the Jardins of Tivoli only by a Rue. This building with the elegant style is characterized in particular by the Wintergarden which it shelters in its center.

Its first wing was built by the architect Vilhelm Dahlerup then inaugurated in 1897. The second as for it was drawn by Hack Kampmann and was delivered in 1906. It shelters the collections of antiquities today. In 1996, the museum was finally increased second once by the Danish architect Henning Larsen.

Collections

If Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek preserves important masterpieces concerned with the golden age of Danish art, it also maintains the collections coming from the outside of the country, of which some completely remarkable. Thus its collection of Etruscan art belongs to most important located out of Italy. In the same way, its collection of sculptures of Auguste Rodin would constitute the principal one out of France.

At all events, the artists of this country are particularly well represented in Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. One indeed finds there a great number of works of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Paul Gauguin as well as work of Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne, but also those of Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard.

See too

External bonds

Official site of the glyptothèque.

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