The Danish National Gallery Statens Museum for Kunst (National Museum of Art) is the largest museum of fine arts in Denmark and is located in the center of the capital Copenhagen.
Designed by architect Vilhelm Dahlerup (1836–1907), the museum opened in 1897. In 1998, the main building was congenially supplemented by an extension by the architect Anna Maria Indrio (* 1943).
Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, The Fall of the Titans, 1588-1590 © SMK
In addition to changing temporary exhibitions, there is also an extensive collection consisting of three main collections:
The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures, which includes about 2600 works from 1300 to the present day. One focus of the collection is Danish and Nordic art from 1750 to 1900, including numerous works of art from the Golden Age of Danish painting by painters such as Wilhelm Bendz, Detlev Conrad Blunck, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Constantin Hansen, Christen Købke, Vilhelm Marstrand and Martinus Rørbye, as well as Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, who worked in Denmark for a time. The collection also includes works by Titian and Mantegna, Rubens and Rembrandt and Cornelis Gijsbrechts, as well as Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde and Robert Smithson, among others. But it also includes modern contemporary works by the Danes Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Elmgreen and Dragset and Danh Vō.
Elisabeth Jericho Baumann, An Egyptian Potter at Giza, 1876-1878
The Royal Prints and Drawings Collection includes 300,000 works (drawings, lithographs, etchings and other art forms on paper) by Danish and international artists.
The collection of casts (Den Kongelige Afstøbningssamling) comprises over 2,000 plaster casts and has been housed in a historic packing house (Vestindisk Pakhus, Toldbodgade 40) since 1984. The works represented date back to Ancient Egypt. To save money, the collection is only open on Tuesday and Sunday afternoons.
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