The Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) is located in Copenhagen. It is home to Danish art. Its collection includes some 260,000 works, spanning more than seven hundred years from the late Middle Ages to the present day. It has numerous masterpieces by artists such as Albrecht Durer, Peter Paul Rubens, CW Eckersberg and Christen Kobke. Today, the SMK attracts around 450,000 visitors annually. Most of us outside of Scandinavia, are unfamiliar with Nordic pictorial and sculptural traditions. But their paintings do reflect their underlying Nordic cultures, social values on compassion & emotion and finally their natural environment. The Nordic approach is visually less intense and flamboyant as compared with the Italian Baroque or to the French Impressionist. Their approach is more humanistic and much closer to our daily life. Stylistically their 18C and 19C paintings were mostly realistism with clarity, sharpness, crispness and on occasion melancolia. It much closer to ordinary persons and our life.

1. Statens Museum for Kunst
The Home of Danish Paintings
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2. Nordic
Paintings
Jens Juel (1745-1802) was a Danish
painter primarily known for his many
portraits. He is regarded as the leading
Danish portrait painting pf the 18th
century.
This is a very private painting of the artist
and wife. It remained in the artist’s home
until the widow sold it to the king of
Denmark about 1820s.
J Juel 1791

3. CW Eckersberg 1813
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg is a well-
known Danish painter. His portraits dominated
Danish painting through the later 19C – the
seeming realism of details coupled with a
rigorous clarity of composition, embedded in
everyday ritual.

4. CW Eckersberg 1813

5. CW Eckersberg 1828
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a very
influential Danish painter. He painted with
clarity with sharpness, which characterised
many Nordic paintings. He taught and
reformed the Academy in Copenhagen. He
painted historical subjects, Neoclassical
portraits with austere compositions and turned
to marine painting including paintings of ships
on the 1820s. He is also referred to as the
Father of Danish painting.

6. M Rorby 1825
Martinus Rorbye (1805-1848) was Danish
painter known for genre works and
landscapes. He was a central figure of
the Golden Age of Danish painting during
the first half of the 19C.
His interest was in the light and surfaces
can be seen from the reflection on the
mahogany table top. The painting also full
of symbolism – an open window, a bird
cage, warships in the dock beyond the
window, plants at different stage of
development from seedlings to full
blossoms.

7. W Bendz 1826
Wilhelm Bendz (1804-1832) was a
Danish painter mainly known for
genre works and portraits. He was
one of the most talented artists in the
successful generation of painters who
studied under Christoffer Wilhelm
Eckersberg.

8. W Bendz 1830
“The picture held in the man’s hand –
presumably a small portrait of the older
woman’ late husband - informs us that
close family ties bind together these
individuals and the image they look at.
We see intimacy unfolded before our
eyes: the presentable aspects of private
family life as well as glimpses of the
intimate sphere accessed only by those
on the inside.” by Mikkel Bogh, Director
of the SMK museum.

9. C Hansen c1827
Carl Christian Constantin Hansen was one
of the painters associated with the Golden
Age of Danish Painting.

10. JC Dahl 1829

11. JC Dahl 1829
Johan Christian Dahl was one of the
better known Norwegian painter, often
considered as father of Norwegian
Landscape painter. He lived and work
mainly in Dresden and he was a friend
of the German painter Caspar David
Friedrich, a Romantic Landscape
painter. Dahl became a professor at the
Academy.
His paintings are full of symbolism and
scenes of his Norwegian homeland. On
the painting here the stones surrounded
the tree was an ancient Norwegian
burial site and the two trees
representing an older married couple.

12. W Marstrand 1833
Wilhelm Marstrand was a Danish
painter of the Golden Age of
Danish Painting. CW Eckersberg
was a friend of his family. He
painted genre and history
painting.

13. C Kobke 1832
Another student of the Royal
Academy, Christen Kobke (1810-48)
was am outstanding painter of
portraits, landscapes and townscapes
and occasional genre scenes. His
mostly calm, luminous, factual
presentation of unexceptional
subjects tends to hide behind it
nationalistic pride and through the
inclusion of significant symbolic
objects, a desire to include moral
meaning in his Romantic approach..

14. C Kobke 1830s
Christen Kobke (1810-48) was arguably
the greatest painter of Danish ‘Golden
Age’, a period of artistic achievement.
He had the remarkable ability to invest
the simplest corner of town or
countryside with charm and delicacy
and endowed ordinary people and
places.

15. C Kobke 1835

16. C Kobke 1843

17. FSodring1835

18. AW Boesen 1848

19. Carl Block (1834-90) studied with Wilhelm
Marstrand at the Royal Academy of Art. He
travelled to the Netherlands where he
became acquainted with the works of
Rembrandt. He also studied in Italy. His
early works included rural genre subjects
and later developed his historical style.
C Bloch 1863

20. C Bloch 1863

21. H Jerichau 1878

22. Michael Ancher 1882
“Michael Ancher (1849-1927)
was a Danish realist artist.
He is remembered above all
for his paintings of fishermen
and other scenes from the
Danish fishing community in
Skagen” Wikipedia.
Michael Ancher married
Anna Ancher, who was also
a painter in her own right.

23. Michael Ancher 1883

24. Anna Ancher 1891
A painting on a funeral is an unusual setting for a painting but Skagen was a fishing village.

25. Anna Ancher 1891
Anna Ancher nee Brondum (1859-1935)
was a one of Denmark’s greatest visual
artist. She was a colourist and a character
painter. An example of this was her painting
of an old man ‘Lars Gaihede Whittling a
Stick’’.
Lars Gaihede Whittling a Stick by Anna Ancher’

26. PS Kroyer 1879
Peder Severin Kroyer was of the best known and loved painter of his colourful paintings. He was also belong to Skagen group
of painters, a community of Danish and Nordic artists, including Michael and Anna Ancher.

27. PS Kroyer 1883

28. Eric Henningsen (1855-1930) was a Danish
painter and illustrator. He was best known for his
Social Realist paintings of poor and exposed
group in the 1880s. He was preoccupied with the
rights and living conditions of unemployed,
women, workers, children and the elderly.
Erik Henningsen 1888

29. Erik Henningsen 1888

30. Erik Henningsen 1888

31. Erik Henningsen 1888

32. Erik Henningsen 1888

33. LA Ring 1894
LA Ring (1854-1933) painted
this after a visit to the
catacombs in Palermo
convent. These were the
mummified corpses of the
monks at different ages..
The last burial still had hair
and beard on the corpse. In
the painting L A showed us
that in death we will find
nothing except the almost
comical remains of bodies
that was once alive.
L A Ring (1854-1933)
pioneered in symbolism and
social realism in Denmark.

34. LA Ring 1897
Laurits Andersen Ring (1854-1933) painted
his wife in pregnancy, with the promise of
spring acting as a symbol of the
consummation of love. With so much new
found happiness, hope and flowering plant a
contrast to the last painting of death.
This is also a new woman toward
independent, quietly confident and
composed, a liberated woman different to the
woman of the Romantic era.

35. LA Ring 1908
The house of the old woman Ane was
prepared for spring by Per Nilen. The
building was crooked with age and wear.
It is a glimpse of everyday life. The
abruptly cropped cutting off the window
and Ane’s face together with the realistic
details contribute to the sense of looking
at a piece of everyday life. This is one of
LA Ring’s tried and tested painting
composition.

36. P Hansen 1901

37. CJ Bonnesen 1902

38. CJ Bonnesen 1902

39. CJ Bonnesen 1902

40. CJ Bonnesen 1902

41. Edvard Eriksen (1876-1959) was a wood
carver, before joining the Academy of
Fine Art. Later in life he also taught in
the Academy.
E Eriksen 1904

42. E Eriksen 1904

43. Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863-1958)
was associated with the Symbolism and
Expressionism movements. He lived
mostly in France. Besides painting, he
had interests in sculpture, architecture,
ceramics and photography and was an
accomplished engraver.
J Willumsen 1912

44. Jan van Scorel played a leading role in
introducing Italian Renaissance painting
into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance. He
spent a number of years in Italy.
Date of painting unknown. Oil on canvas,
transferred from panel. 44x32.5 cm.
Other
European
Paintings
Jan Scorel

45. Erhard Altdorfer 1530-35
Ergard Atdorfer (1480-1561) was a German
printmaker, painter and architect, who worked as
a court painter in Schwerin. He was also the
younger brother of Albrecht Altdorfer.

46. M van Roymerswaele 1540

47. Lucas Cranach the Elder 1550
Lucas Cranach the Elder a German painter and
printmaker and a friend of Martin Luther, who
founded the Protestant Reformation. He also work
as a court painter to the Electors of Saxony. He
was a portraitist and continued throughout his
career to paint nude subject drawn from mythology
and religion.

48. P Bruegel the Elder 1526

49. J Bassano c1550
Jacopo Bassano (c1510-1592)
an Italian painter who painted
mostly religious subjects,
including landscape and genre
scenes. He was from a family of
painters of the Venetian school.
He was one of the most
influential painters in the Veneto
apart from Titian.

50. A Bloemaert 1591

51. Rubens. c1617

52. Rubens c1624
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was
a Flemish Baroque painter, who
successfully to rival the Italians. He
painted many large scale altarpieces,
murals and ceilings, but always in oil.
He was also a brilliant colourist par
excellence. His paintings are
intensely visual and uniquely
affirmative of the joys of life.

53. J Steen 1671

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