
French Art at Ordrupgaard
Complete Catalogue of Paintings, Sculptures, Pastels, Drawings, and Prints
Ordrupgaard(Editor)
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2011
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-3-7757-2671-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Ordrupgaard Museum in Charlottenlund-a suburb in the north part of Copenhagen-is home to one of the most high-caliber collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art in the world. Its founder, insurance magnate Wilhelm Hansen, wanted to promote awareness of French painting. His first acquisitions were works by Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, and Auguste Renoir. As a collector, Hansen focused on Impressionism, but he also explored artistic currents occurring both before and after the Impressionist period. Hence, the works at the Ordrupgaard represent a variety of styles: Romanticism (Eugène Delacroix), the Barbizon School (Théodore Rousseau), Realism (Gustave Courbet), Modernism (Édouard Manet), and Symbolism (Paul Gauguin). This publication provides a thorough overview of this outstanding collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ostfildern
Germany
Illustrations
169 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder, 0 Abbildungen
169 farbige Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 30.7 cm
Width: 24.8 cm
Thickness: 3.5 cm
Weight
2220 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7757-2671-9 (9783775726719)
Schweitzer Classification