The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ("ny" means "new" in Danish; "Glyptotek" comes from the Greek root glyphein , to carve, and theke , storing place), commonly known simply as Glyptoteket , is an art museum in Copenhagen , Denmark. The collection represents the private art collection of Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914), the son of the founder of the Carlsberg Breweries .
27-567: Glyptotek or Glyptothek may refer to: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark Glyptothek , an art museum in Munich, Germany Glyptothek (album) , an album by Scottish musician Momus Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Glyptotek . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
54-464: A site was chosen on a ravelin outside Holcks Bastion in the city's Western Rampart , just south of the Tivoli Gardens which had been founded in 1843. Jacobsen was displeased with the location which he found to be too far from the city centre and he had also reservations about the proximity of Tivoli which he found common. Instead he wanted a building on the emerging new city hall square , yet in
81-425: Is 19th-century French painting and sculpture. The painting collection contains works by such painters as David and Manet, as well as a large collection of Impressionist painters such as Monet, Cézanne and Bonnard. The single painter represented with most paintings is Paul Gauguin with more than 40 works. The museum also holds a large collection of French 19th-century sculpture by artists such as Carpeaux and Rodin,
108-460: Is a minimalistic infill, built in a former inner courtyard and affording access to the roof. Official meetings and banquets sometimes take place in the Glyptotek, such as the certification of Polio-free Europe, 21 June 2002. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek's collections comprise more than 10,000 works of art. The Antique collection displays sculptures and other antiquities from the ancient cultures around
135-693: The Helge Jacobsen concert series . Helge Jacobsen Concerts have included the Austrian Hagen Quartet , the Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova , the French pianist Cédric Tiberghien , the Russian bariton Sergei Leiferkus , the French Ysaÿe Quartet and German tenor Jonas Kaufmann among others. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is in general noted for its good acoustics, both in the auditorium and in
162-613: The Mediterranean . The extensive Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collection comprises marble statues, small terra cotta statues, reliefs , pottery and other artifacts. The Etruscan collection is the largest outside Italy. Theidoit Jacobsen's broker in Rome for 25 years, acquiring more than 950 sculptures and Etruscan antiquities for the Ny Carlsberg Museum. The Egyptian Collection comprises more than 1,900 pieces, dating from 3000 BCE to
189-404: The 18th to the 20th century. Represented sculptors include Neoclassicists such as Canova , Sergel , Carstens, Flaxman, Rauch and Baily, as well as Modernists like Meunier, Klinger, Picasso and Giacometti. The collection also comprises a small collection of Modern paintings of artists such as Arp, Ernst, Miró, Poliakoff and Gilioli. The Auditorium is mainly used for classical concerts, including
216-734: The 1st century CE and representing both Ancient Egypt , the Middle Kingdom and the Roman Period . It was founded in 1882 when Carl Jacobsen made his first Egyptian acquisition, a Sarcophagus purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo . Many of the objects in the collection were augmented when the Ny Carlsberg Foundation sponsored excavations in Egypt in the beginning of the 20th century led by
243-555: The Auditorium is also used for other musical genres, such as the Danish Klezmer group Mames Babegenush . The Auditorium is also used for other cultural events, such as poetry readings, lectures and debates. The museum is used as a location in the films Stjerneskud (1947), Fodboldpræsten (1951), Dorte (1951), Mød mig på Cassiopeia (1951), Bruden fra Dragstrup (1955) and Den kære familie (1962). The building
270-583: The English Egyptologist W. M. F. Petrie . The holdings include several mummies , displayed in a crypt -like gallery below the normal galleries. The Near Eastern Collection spans a period of 7150 years, the oldest artifact being from 6500 BCE and the youngest being from 650 CE, featuring such cultures as the Levant , Mesopotamia , Anatolia and Persia . The main focus of the French Collection
297-464: The French and Danish collections. The Kampmann Wing is a more simple, neo-classical building, built as a series of galleries around a central auditorium used for lectures, small concerts, symposiums and poetry readings. The two wings are connected by the Winter Garden with mosaic floors, tall palms, a fountain and topped by a dome made in copper and wrought iron. The Henning Larsen Wing
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#1732851211046324-481: The German expression common for it: Brückenkopf – "bridge head"). Therefore, the ravelin was at first only a small work, which should only make the access to the bridge in front of the fortress gates more difficult. When it was realized in the 16th century that this would generally provide better protection for the courtine, ravelins were also built in front of other courtines and these were gradually enlarged. However, it
351-450: The Rodin collection being one of the largest in the world, as well as a complete collection of Degas' bronze sculptures. The Danish Collection contains a large collection of Danish Golden Age paintings by painters such as Eckersberg , Købke and Lundbye . It also contains the largest representation of Danish Golden Age Sculpture in the country. The European Collection comprises works from
378-463: The bastion fortification system. The outer edges of the ravelin are so configured that it divides an assault force, and guns in the ravelin can fire upon the attacking troops as they approach the curtain wall. It also impedes besiegers from using their artillery to batter a breach in the curtain wall. The side of the ravelin facing the inner fortifications has at best a low wall, if any, so as not to shelter attacking forces if they have overwhelmed it or
405-412: The bronze sculptures of Degas , including the series of dancers. Numerous works by Norwegian-Danish sculptor Stephan Sinding are featured prominently in various sections of the museum. Carl Jacobsen was a dedicated art collector. He was particularly interested in antique art, but over the years he also acquired a considerable collection of French and Danish sculptures. When his private villa in 1882
432-546: The defenders have abandoned it. Frequently ravelins have a ramp or stairs on the curtain-wall side to facilitate the movement of troops and artillery onto the ravelin. The first example of a ravelin appears in the fortifications of the Italian town of Sarzanello , and dates from 1497. The first ravelins were built of brick, but later, during the sixteenth century in the Netherlands, they were earthen (perhaps faced by stone or brick),
459-408: The direction of Danish architects Dissing + Weitling . and Bonde Ljungar Arkitekter MAA . The building is often noted for its elegance in its own right and the synthesis it creates with the works of art. The Dahlerup Wing , the oldest part of the museum, is a lavish historicist building. The façade is in red brick with polished granite columns in a Venetian renaissance style. It houses
486-521: The end he accepted. It was Carl Jacobsen who chose the name for the museum, with inspiration from Ludwig I 's Glyptothek in Munich , as well as Vilhelm Dahlerup as the architect for the assignment. The moat around the radan was filled and the new museum opened first on 1 May 1897. At first it only included Jacobsen's modern collection with French and Danish works from the 18th century. In January 1899 Carl Jacobsen donated his collection of Antique art to
513-538: The last four as well as conducted a redesign of the winter garden. In spite of the many extensions, it was finally clear the existing premises were inadequate and that a new building was needed. On 8 March 1888 Carl Jacobsen donated his collection to the Danish State and the City of Copenhagen on condition that they provided a suitable building for its exhibition. Copenhagen's old fortifications had recently been abandoned and
540-419: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glyptotek&oldid=1052672846 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Primarily a sculpture museum, as indicated by
567-409: The museum which made an expansion necessary. It was designed by Hack Kampmann while Dahlerup designed a winter garden which connected the new wing to the old building. It was inaugurated in 1906. In 1996 the museum was once again extended, this time with an infill constructed in one of its courtyards to the design of Henning Larsen . In 2006, the building underwent a major renovation programme under
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#1732851211046594-757: The name, the focal point of the museum is antique sculpture from the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean , including Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as more modern sculptures such as a collection of Auguste Rodin 's works, considered to be the most important outside France . However, the museum is equally noted for its collection of paintings that includes an extensive collection of French impressionists and Post-impressionists as well as Danish Golden Age paintings . The French Collection includes works by painters such as Jacques-Louis David , Monet , Pissarro , Renoir , Degas and Cézanne , as well as those by Post-impressionists such as van Gogh , Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard . The museum's collection includes all
621-488: The ravelin is placed outside a castle and opposite a fortification curtain wall. The ravelin is the oldest and at the same time the most important outer work of the bastion fortification system. It originated from small forts that were supposed to cover the bridge that led across the moat to the city or fortress gate from a direct attack. From this original function, to protect the gate bridge, also comes its original Italian name " rivellino " (which means small bank work or with
648-526: The surrounding long halls. The Auditorium has been used as a rehearsal room by the Early music vocal ensemble Musica Ficta , often within opening hours of the museum, occasionally adding music to the museum experience, and it has also regularly performed concerts, both in the Auditorium and the surrounding halls. Pioneer overtone singer David Hykes in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1997. Occasionally
675-430: Was extended with a winter garden, sculptures soon outnumbered plants in it. The same year the collection was opened to the public. In the following years the museum was expanded on a number of occasions to meet the need for more space for his steadily growing collections. In 1885 his 'house museum' had grown to a total of 19 galleries , the first 14 of which had been designed by Vilhelm Dahlerup while Hack Kampmann had built
702-455: Was not until the German fortress builder Daniel Specklin (1536–1589) recognized the principal importance of ravelins (which he still called " ledige Wehr " or "revelin"). He demanded that they be made as large as possible so that they fully covered the courtine and the flanks of the bastions and could place a flanking fire in front of the bastion tops. In the following period, ravelins can be found in practically all fortresses built according to
729-573: Was the inspiration for the set design of the Valkyries' Rock in Kasper Holten 's 2006 production of Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Copenhagen Opera House . Ravelin A ravelin is a triangular fortification or detached outwork , located in front of the innerworks of a fortress (the curtain walls and bastions ). Originally called a demi-lune , after the lunette ,
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