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The Dehn Mansion is one of two identical but mirror-imag Rococo -style town mansions on Bredgade , flanking the entrance to Amalienborg via Frederiksgade , in the Frederiksstaden district of Copenhagen , Denmark . It takes its name after Friedrich Ludwig von Dehn, its first owner. The mansion was later divided into two separate properties. The larger, northn part of the mansion is now owned by the Danish Association of Pharmaconomists . The southern part (Frederiksgade 17) is owned by Karberghus . The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918.

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36-469: Nicolai Eigtved 's masterplan for Copenhagen's new Frederiksstaden district was presented in 1749. The four most prestigious lots were those of the four Amalienborg mansions that would surround the central, octagonal plaza of the new district. Then followed the two lots at the corners of the axially symmetric street Frederiksgade that marked the entrance to Amalienborg from Norgesgade (now Bredgade). In return for 30 years of freedom from property taxes,

72-700: A leading position. In late summer 1748 the Academy moved to the floor above the Crown Prince's stables at Christiansborg Palace, where Eigtved also had his official offices. In 1748 it was 300 years since the Oldenburg family took the throne in Denmark, and in 1749 the 300-year jubilee of the coronation of Christian I of Denmark was commemorated with the establishment of a new district in Copenhagen called Frederiksstad. Heading

108-436: A lifelong rivalry with colleague Lauritz de Thurah , another royal building master and the leading proponent of baroque architecture at the time. Eigtved became the king's preferred architect, and Eigtved's rococo style was the preferred building style. As a result, de Thurah was often overlooked, while Eigtved got the best assignments. He participated along with German architect Elias David Hausser and Lauritz de Thurah in

144-696: A merchant and planter from Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies , purchased the mansion in 1819. He had recently also purchased the Bernstorff Palace in Charlottenlund north of the city. The Dehn Mansion changed hands several times after MacEvoy's death in 1838. At the 1840 census, No. 179A was home to 18 residents. Jonathan F. Woodside, who served as the Chargé d'affairs of the United States resided in

180-626: A warehouse for the company on Christianshavn . The building called Eigtved's Pakhus was built 1748–1750. During this same period of time Eigtved also worked on the expansion of Moltke's estate Bregentved , which had been given to him by the King after his ascension to the throne. He was promoted to colonel in the Engineer Corps in 1749. Eigtved became the Art Academy's first director in 1751. However Eigtved's rococo style, which had been popular for so long,

216-588: The 1730s–1740s. He designed and built some of the most prominent buildings of his time, a number of which still stand to this day. He also played an important role in the establishment of the Royal Danish Academy of Art ( Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi ), and was its first native-born leader. He was born Niels Madsen on the farm in the village of Egtved in the parish of Haraldsted on the island of Zealand , Denmark to Mads Nielsen and Dorthe Hansdatter. He

252-416: The Academy has had an impoverished existence with weak leadership. Eigtved overtook administrative responsibility for the Academy in 1745 after the departure of Hieronimo Miani as leader from Denmark. The Marble Bridge at Christiansborg was completed in 1744. He was named Church Inspector for Copenhagen, Kronborg , Antborskov, Vordingborg and Tryggevælde district in 1745. In 1746 Frederik V ascended to

288-773: The Crown Prince Frederik V . The building is now the National Museum ( Nationalmuseet ). At the same time, he also designed a mansion for Schulin of the Building Commission in Frederiksdal. Between 1744 and 1745, Eigtved built a small pavilion for Privy Councillor J.S. Schulin on the Furesø Lake called Frederiksdal Pavilion . Credited with being the earlier example of " maison de plaisance " in Denmark, "it jointly had large and small rooms symmetrically ordered around

324-631: The Dehn Mansion to Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg . He fell out of favour at the Danish court after the English Wars . In 1810 the mansion was purchased for speculative reasons by a consortium consisting of Frederik Julius Kaas , William Duntzfelt and Niels Rosenkrantz . They divided it into two separate properties. In 1911, they were sold to Carl Ludwig von Baudissin . He died in 1913. Christopher MacEvoy Jr. ,

360-536: The Dehn Mansion was completed in 1755. The property was listed as No. 71 NN in St. Ann's East Quarter. It is marked as No. 326 on Christian Gedde's map of St. Ann's East Quarter . Dehn was appointed to stadtholder in Schleswig-Holstein in 1762 and therefore ended up selling his town mansion in Copenhagen to Ditlev Reventlow in 1766. Reventlow passed it on to his son Fritz Reventlow in 1779. In 1794, Reventlow sold

396-592: The Frederikstaden district Frederiks Hospital , now the Danish Museum of Applied Arts ( Kunstindustrimuseet ). Eigtved also led building work on one of the masterpieces of Frederiksstad — the centrally located Frederik's Church ( Frederikskirke ), now commonly referred to as now known as The Marble Church ( Marmorkirken ). Moltke, who was also director for the Danish Asiatic Company , had Eigtved design

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432-784: The attention of German architect and draughtsman Colonel Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , for whom he worked for several years. Pöppelmann was connected to the Saxon - Polish court under Frederick Augustus I , and got him a position as second lieutenant in the Saxon-Polish Engineer Corps. Eigtved came into a rich architectural environment, which was influenced by the presence of French immigrants including Jean de Bodt and Zacharias Longuelune . Some of Pöppelmann's assignments in those years, on which Eigtved would have probably participated, were Augustus Bridge ( Augustusbruecke ) in Dresden (1728),

468-447: The building with two maids, a female cook, a coachman, a stableman and a male servant. In 1842 the property was acquired by Carl Frederik Blixen Finecke . His brother-in-law, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel , heir to the Danish throne until 1852, purchased the mansion in 1844. He rented the smaller, southern part of the building out, for instance to the writer Johan Ludvig Heiberg and his wife Johanne Luise Heiberg . In 1871

504-531: The central pavilions also have pilasters with highly decorated capitals and grooves at the ground floor level. The cornices are decorated with Vases and cartouches on the roofs. Nicolai Eigtved Nicolai Eigtved (4 June 1701 – 7 June 1754), also known as Niels Eigtved , was a Danish architect . He introduced and was the leading proponent of the French rococo or late baroque style in Danish architecture during

540-735: The extension of the Japanese Palace ( Japanisches Palais ) in Dresden (1727), drafts for the three-king church in Dresden new city (1723–1739), and a new large lock for the Saxon dynasty (c. 1730). In 1730 Eigtved was promoted to lieutenant in Engineer Corps, and participated in the building of the ruler's military camp near Zeithain . He made excellent military drawings, and became acquainted with Danish statesman General Poul Vendelbo Løvenørn , who after his return to Denmark interested King Christian VI in Eigtved. The King summoned Eigtved to Denmark, and with

576-495: The fire of 1794. Hausser, who had been the original architect for the project, lost his influence as the younger de Thurah and Eigtved took on larger assignments in the castle project. In 1738 the king set up a royal buildings commission that would lead the continued work on the castle. The commission would be led by State Minister Count Johan Sigismund Schulin (1694–1750). At the same time Eigtved and de Thurah switched areas of responsibilities, where de Thurah gave up Copenhagen and

612-515: The interior construction of Christiansborg Palace, with wood sculpting by Louis August le Clerc . Eigtved and de Thurah, for the most part, divided up the interior assignments. Eigtved designed the king's apartments, the main staircase, the chapel's interior, the riding grounds, and the Marble Bridge ( Marmorbroen ) and its two pavilions, and gave the castle its delicate Louis XIV style . Most of Eigtved's accomplishments at Christiansborg were lost in

648-413: The island of Zealand, in exchange for Eigtved's Jutland Peninsula. In 1742 Eigtved was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Engineer Corps, became a member of the Building Commission, and took over the role of leading architect for Christiansborg Palace from Hausser. Eigtved designed and built, along with Boye Junge, The Prince's mansion at Frederiksholm's Canal ( Frederiksholms Kanal ) 1743–1744, for

684-530: The main axis' vestibule and constervatory. The mansard roof is the result of an alteration carried out by Johann Gottfried Rosenberg in 1752–1753, who while working on Frederiksdal also designed Margård Manor on Funen , also inspired by French country estates." Around this same time he came in contact with the Drawing and Painting Academy ( Tegne – og Malerakademiet ), predecessor to the Royal Danish Academy of Art ( Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi ). Until then

720-403: The newly built Amalienburg Palace near Nymphenburg Eigtved returned to Denmark in 1735 after twelve years' absence. Building construction was at a fever pitch, with construction of Christiansborg Palace having been begun three years earlier. He was named captain in the Engineer Corps, and named royal building master with supervisory responsibility for Jutland and Funen in 1735. Thus began

756-572: The night between May 4 and 5, the floors of the building collapsed completely, leaving only the outer walls intact. The mansion was then rebuilt in the same style before the fire. The Dehn Mansion is designed in the Late Baroque/Rococo style. The main facades towards Bredgade consist of three three-storey pavilions with Mansard roofs connected by lower, two-storey sections. The piano nobile has tall, arched windows tpååed bnu sandstone decorations. The facade has ear-lesenes (i.e. small square and

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792-510: The northern and southern part of the mansion were for the first time sold to different buyers. The southern part was acquired by the Knuth family for Christopher Knuth. He owned it until his death in 1942, using it as his winter home while spending the summers on the Lilliendal estate at Vordingborg . The larger northern part of the mansion was acquired by piano manufacturer Frederik Møller. In 1900, it

828-423: The old Royal Danish Teatre, and in 1753 helped extend Fredensborg Palace by adding four symmetrically positioned corner pavilions with separate copper pyramid-shaped roofs to the main building. On 24 May 1743, he married Sophie Christine Walther (1726–1795), chambermaid to Princess Louise, at Frederickborg Castle Chapel. They had seven children, but only three lived to adulthood. His daughter Anne Margrethe Eigtved

864-459: The plaza, Moltke's Danish Asia Company erected a monumental equestrian statue of Frederick VI designed by Jacques François Joseph Saly . The four palaces surrounding the plaza were identical from the outside, but different on the inside. Moltke's Palace was the most expensive, and had the most extravagant interiors. Its Great Hall ( Riddersalen ) is acknowledged widely as perhaps the finest Danish rococo interior. Eigtved also designed and built in

900-466: The project was Moltke, and Eigtved was architect. The new Frederiksstaden district was built on the former grounds of Amalien Garden ( Amalienhave ), and became a fine example of European rococo architecture. At the center of the district lay the four palaces at Amalienborg , including the Moltke Palace, today known as Christian VII's Palace, surrounding the octagonal Amalienborg Plaza. In the middle of

936-414: The throne, and along with him came the powerful statesman and leader Court Marshal ( Hofmarshal ) Adam Gottlob Moltke , who became Eigtved's proponent in the court. On 28 December 1747 he made a proposal to create a stronger foundation for the Academy, which was approved by the King on 12 February 1748. In this way Eigtved took control of the Academy as its first strong administrator, and the first Dane in

972-504: The title of captain he was dismissed from foreign service. He was made Danish lieutenant in 1732, and Christian VI let Eigtved further educate himself in Italy between 1732 and 1735 in civil architecture. On his travel back to Denmark, he stayed and made drawings in Vienna and Munich , where he became familiar with the rococo style seen in the design of French architect François de Cuvilliés for

1008-497: The trade union has since 2014. Sanne Hee Johansen has been vice president since November 2016. The Danish Association of Pharmaconomists cooperates with Pharmakon—Danish College of Pharmacy Practice and the Association of Danish Pharmacies and is affiliated with the FTF – Confederation of Professionals in Denmark . The association publishes the magazine The Pharmaconomist 10 times

1044-519: The two privy councilors Frederik Ludvig von Dehn and Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff committed themselves to building the two identical town mansions that were called for in Eigtved's masterplan. Dehn and Bernstorff commissioned the architect Johann Gottfried Rosenberg to design and construct the two buildings. Dehn had possibly already used Rosenborg for the design of Gut Ludwigsburg in Schleswig. The plans were approved by Eigtved in 1753 and

1080-534: The work on Frederick's Church, but was denied that role, which went instead to Nicolas-Henri Jardin on 1 April 1756. He stands along with Laurids de Thurah as the leading architect of his time. His death probably saved him from the same type of long, agonizing downfall, as de Thurah had suffered, when his rococo style gave way to the King's newly preferred neoclassicism and his newly preferred architect, Nicolas-Henri Jarden. Eigtved also built Sophienberg in Rungsted,

1116-518: Was about to suffer with the absolutist King's change of interest. On 30 March 1754, on the King's thirtieth birthday, the Academy moved to Charlottenborg , and became dedicated as the Royal Danish Academy of Art, after inspiration from France's Académie française . Eigtved was snubbed at the Academy of Art's opening ceremony when professor and royal portraitist Carl Gustaf Pilo gave the welcoming speech to King Frederick V, not Eigtved. Eigtved

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1152-420: Was ceded to Hornung & Møller . The Russian diplomatic delegation in Copenhagen was also a tenant in the building but closed down in 1919. The insurance company Nord & Syd acquired both parts of the mansion in 1942. Det Dansk-Franske Dampskibsselskab, a shipping company, acquired the building in 1956. In 1976, the mansion was taken over by the state and put through a major renovation. The northern part

1188-693: Was married to architect Georg David Anthon (1714–1781). Eigtved died on 7 June 1754 in Copenhagen. He and members of his family were buried at St. Peter's Church, Copenhagen . Danish Association of Pharmaconomists The Danish Association of Pharmaconomists ( Danish : Farmakonomforeningen ) is the trade union that represents pharmaconomists (experts in pharmaceuticals) and pharmaconomist students in Denmark (including Greenland and Faroe Islands ). The Danish Association of Pharmaconomists has about 5,350 members ( i.e. 98% of all Danish pharmaconomists). Christina Durinck has been president of

1224-676: Was removed from the Director's position a few days later, and the directorship went to Frenchman sculptor Jacques Saly . Also on the same day that the Academy was moved to Charlottenborg, the Eigtved-designed Moltke Palace was officially dedicated by the king. At his death two of the four Amalienborg Palaces were complete, the two western palaces. The work that he had begun was continued by de Thurah strictly according to Eigtved's plans. The palaces were finally completed in 1760. de Thurah tried unsuccessfully to get project leadership of

1260-526: Was sold to Danish Association of Pharmaconomists in 1980. two parts of the mansion were once again sold to different buyers. The northern part was taken over by the government and used for housing the Ministry of Environmental Affairs. The southern part has for instance housed the Danish Copyright Bureau . In the night between 3 and 4 May 2010, a violent fire broke out in the roof of the mansion. On

1296-583: Was trained locally as a gardener, and was promoted to a position at the Frederiksberg Palace Gardens ca. 1720. In July 1723 he got an opportunity to travel out of the country as a royal gardening apprentice. He travelled to Berlin and Dresden , among other places in Germany , earned his keep with jobs as a gardener, and learned to speak German . From 1725 he lived in Warsaw , Poland , where he came to

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