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Danish Golden Age - World-class art between disasters


Statens Museum for Kunst / The National Gallery of Denmark, Sølvgade, Copenhagen

A major exhibition of painting in Denmark from the early 19th century to the 1860s … between the disaster of the attack on Copenhagen by the British in September 1807 - when much of the city was destroyed - and October 1864 and the second war with Germany over Danish lands in Schleswig Holstein.

Danish Golden Age
Statens Museum for Kunst

people fleeing to Christianshavn to escape the burning city
as British war ships bombarded Copenhagen in September 1807
illustrated by C W Eckersberg

Earlier Event: August 22
Lauren Greenfield - Generation Wealth
Later Event: August 28
MATTERS - RETHINKING MATERIALS