Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen (Denmark)

The Hirschsprung Collection is an art museum located on Stockholmsgade in Copenhagen Denmark. It is located in a parkland setting in stre Anlg near the Danish National Gallery and houses a large collection of Danish art from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The emphasis is on the Danish Golden Age from 1800 to 1850 but also the Skagen Painters and other representatives of the Modern Breakthrough are well represented. The museum is built around the personal art collection of Heinrich Hirschsprung a tobacco manufacturer and patron of the arts who founded his art collection in 1865. Almost four decades later in 1902 he donated it to the Danish state. It is displayed in a purpose-built Neoclassical museum building designed by Hermann Baage Storck and completed in 1911.