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30-427: The Hirschsprung Collection 's building (No. 20) is the only building situated on the park side of the street (even numbers). It was completed to a Neoclassical design by Hermann Baagøe Storck to house the personal art collection of Heinrich Hirschsprung . The street is located on the former glacis outside the city's Fortification Ring. Østre Anlæg was created when the landscape architect Ole Høeg Hansen converted

60-518: A mutual friend at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts ( Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi ). Hirschsprung admired Krøyer's artistic talent and skills, and he purchased his first paintings from him in 1874 — four watercolors from Hornbæk . They continued a lifelong friendship. Hirschsprung helped finance Krøyer's travels and foreign residence during the years 1877–1881, giving him the financial support needed to develop his artistic skills. Krøyer

90-680: A new building at University Park in 1942. No. 59, on the corner of Dag Hammarskjölds Allé was built for Østre Borgerdyd Gymnasium . The building is from 1884 and was designed by Frederik L. Levy and Henrik Hagemann. The Olsen-banden commits burglary at Jhalmar Brantings Plads 4 in the opening scene of The Olsen Gang's Big Score . Søren Ulrik Thomsen mentions the street in the poem En aften jeg går gennem Østre Anlæg ( Rystet spejl ). 55°41′27″N 12°34′43″E  /  55.6907°N 12.5787°E  / 55.6907; 12.5787 Hirschsprung Collection The Hirschsprung Collection ( Danish : Den Hirschsprungske Samling)

120-427: A section of the old East Rampart into an English-style landscape park in the 1870s. His initial plan was created in 1872 but progress on its implementation was slow and the northwestern margin of the park remained loosely defined. In 1889–90, a plan was finally made for the layout of streets in the triangular area between the park, Øster Farimagsgade and Dag Hammarskjölds Allé . The new square Sølvtorvet on Sølvgade

150-521: A small tobacco business in Copenhagen's Hotel D'Angleterre in 1826. Two years later, in 1827, he married Petrea Hirschsprung née Hertz (1804–1891), and they had six children. Hirschsprung's disease is named after their pediatrician son Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916) who first described it. Heinrich Hirschsprung and his brother Bernhard Hirschsprung (1834–1909) took over A.M. Hirschsprung & Sønner from their father in 1858. Under their leadership

180-726: Is an art museum located on Stockholmsgade in Copenhagen , Denmark . It is located in a parkland setting in Østre Anlæg , near the Danish National Gallery , and houses a large collection of Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century. 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

210-497: 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 Baagøe Storck and completed in 1911. Heinrich Hirschsprung was a tobacco manufacturer at A.M. Hirschsprung & Sønner . He

240-503: The 180 sculptures included in the 1902 catalogue. The collection represents 20 Danish sculptors. 1907 finally saw a successful conclusion to negotiations and a start could be made on building Storck's project from 1902. The site which was ultimately chosen was in Østre Anlæg , a park which had been laid out on the grounds of the city's former fortifications and where also the National Gallery had been built. Heinrich Hirschsprung died

270-447: The 18th century and up to their own day. The collection was shown to the public for the first time in 1888 at Charlottenborg . This happened in connection with the Nordic exhibition of Industry, Agriculture, and Art which was expected to draw many foreign visitors to Copenhagen. The exhibition catalogue included 313 items, representing some 60 Danish artists. About half were paintings while

300-511: The City of Copenhagen, on their side, were required to make a site and a building available for its exhibition. This scheme was similar to the one which had been agreed upon in connection with Carl Jacobsen 's foundation of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek . Still Hirschsprung's demand for an independent building gave rise to a political debate on arts politics which went on for several years and put

330-699: The appearance of a temple of art, the interior, with its small rooms, has the intimacy of a private home. The entrance hall to the museum has a floor mosaic from 1910 by Joakim Skovgaard in which stylised tobacco plants commemorate the founder of the museum. The museum exhibits more than 700 works of art. The emphasis is on the Golden Age of Danish Painting . All the major painters of the period are represented, including C. W. Eckersberg , Christen Købke , Constantin Hansen , Wilhelm Marstrand and Martinus Rørbye , as well as many lesser known names. The artistic generation in

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360-467: The business, now specializing in cigar making, grew rapidly. In 1866, they bought a piece of unused land at Gammelholm , an area which had been a naval site until 1859. There they built a modern factory for manufacturing cigars. It was designed by a young architect Ove Petersen (1830–1892) in a Historicist style which was inspired by Italian Renaissance architecture. Heinrich Hirschsprung married Pauline Elisabeth Jacobson (1845–1912) on 26 June 1864; she

390-407: The collection be placed in an independent building built to a more "sober" design. He wanted the museum to stand on the ground left open by the now demolished ramparts around Copenhagen, where a number of new museum buildings, including the recently inaugurated National Gallery from 1899, had been constructed towards the turn of the century. Under the terms of the deed of gift, the Danish state and

420-419: The collection once it passed into public ownership while others were purchased by Hirschsprung conditional on the same event. To make the collection into a representative display of 19th-century Danish art, Hirschsprung also started to add sculptures to his holdings, using the sculptor and family friend Ludvig Brandstrup as an adviser. In less than a year, Hirschsprung managed to collect the great majority of

450-400: The following year, in 1908, and thus never saw his museum materialize. Emil Hannover, the art historian who had catalogued the collection, was charged with the interior design of the museum as well as curating the exhibition. He hung the paintings in chronological order, in the spirit of Hirschsprung. The Hirschsprung Collection opened to the public in 1911. Pauline Hirschsprung was present at

480-460: The late 19th century, also known as the Modern Breakthrough in Danish painting, who broke away from both the strictures of traditional Academicism and the heritage of the Golden Age of Danish Painting, is also well represented. This includes: The smaller galleries of the museum are furnished with furniture designed by the Golden Age artists and other provenance furniture associated with them. This

510-404: The official opening on 8 July, but died the following year. The museum building is a simple neoclassical building with a light marble cladding and a facade with pediments and Doric pilasters . The floor plan consists of four large toplit galleries surrounded by smaller galleries, " alcoves ", with light entering from windows set high in the walls. While the building from the outside has

540-481: The park side of the street (even numbers). It was completed to a Neoclassical design by Hermann Baagøe Storck to house the personal art collection of Heinrich Hirschsprung . The museum contains an extensive collection of 19th and early 20th-century Danish art. No. 27 was built in 1890-92 to designs by Andreas Clemmesen for the newly founded Pharmaceutical College (Danish: Den Farmaceutiske Læreanstalt ). The Pharmaceutical College moved away from Stockholmsgade into

570-421: The plans on hold. While discussions were going on, Hirschsprung continued to build the collection with acquisitions such as Joakim Skovgaard 's cartoons for the decoration of Viborg Cathedral and a number of works by contemporary artists such as Michael and Anna Ancher and Vilhelm Hammershøi from the art collector Alfred Bramsen's Collection. A number of private individuals also promised to donate works to

600-485: The purchase of a painting by Julius Exner (1825–1910). His collection expanded over the years with additional purchases of paintings by contemporary Danish artists. It was a modern collection of examples from the Skagen Painters , the Funen Artists, ( Fynboerne ) and Symbolists . Hirschsprung was a great supporter, both personally and financially, of P.S. Krøyer who met him through Frants Henningsen , (1850–1908),

630-463: The rest were drawings, watercolours, pastels and some sculptures. In 1900, Pauline and Heinrich Hirschsprung decided to donate their art collection to the Danish state. They had a deed of gift drawn up, which was deposited with the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs . The donation was not made public until two years later, in 1902, when the collection was once again exhibited at Charlottenborg. At

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660-454: The same event, the art historian Emil Hannover was put in charge of cataloging the collection. The exhibition at Charlottenborg also included renderings of the planned museum building, which had been designed by the architect Hermann Baagøe Storck . Disliking the Historicist style which dominated museum architecture in Copenhagen at the time, it was of critical importance to Hirschsprung that

690-433: The state. Heinrich Hirschsprung died during 1908 and was buried at Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads in Copenhagen. The museum was established in 1911 by his widow Pauline Hirschsprung. The Hirschsprung Collection ( Den Hirschsprungske Samling ) opened with 45 paintings, 13 pastels, 205 drawings, 14 watercolors, 12 busts, 55 sketchbooks as well as P.S. Krøyer's letters and documents. The collection has grown since then, and

720-570: Was a Danish tobacco manufacturer, arts patron and art collector most known for founding the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen , a museum dedicated to Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century. Heinrich Hirschsprung was born into a family of German - Jewish descent in Copenhagen . His father, Abraham Marcus Hirschsprun (1793–1871), had been born in Friedberg near Frankfurt am Main in 1783 but moved to Denmark where he opened

750-624: Was a friend of the entire family. He continued a personal correspondence with Pauline and made a number of family portraits of Heinrich, Pauline and their children. In addition to P.S. Krøyer, their homes were gathering places for other contemporary artists as authors such as Holger Drachmann (1846–1908), Herman Bang (1857–1912) and Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) and painters Wilhelm Marstrand (1810–1873), Frederik Vermehren (1823–1910), Otto Bache (1839–1927), Kristian Zahrtmann (1843–1917) as well as Frants Henningsen . In 1902, Hirschsprung announced plans to donate his collection of art to

780-544: Was demolished in 1931 and replaced by a modern apartment building. Krebs' School at No. 5–9 was established as a preparatory school for the Metropolitan School at Frue Plads . The building in Stockholmsgade is from 1878 and was designed by Charles Abrahams . Former students include Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim . The Hirschsprung Collection 's building (No. 20) is the only building situated on

810-503: Was done at the initiative of Emil Hannover, the museum's first director, when he was put in charge of interior design prior to its opening. There is a rectangular, cobbled space in front of the museum. On its left hand side, stands Carl Johan Bonnesen 's equestrian statue A barbarian . A path to the right of the museum provides access to Ørsted Park close to the rear side of the National Gallery . Heinrich Hirschsprung Heinrich Hirschsprung (7 February 1836 – 8 November 1908)

840-406: Was established on the same occasion. Many of the buildings were high-end apartment buildings for the bourgeoisie. Lørups Ridehus, an equestrian centre, was built by Carl Albert Lørup in 1891. The complex included stables for 80 horses. The building was also used as a venue for events such as political meetings and society weddings. Viggo Hørup gave many of his speeches at Lørups Ridehus. The building

870-511: Was married to Pauline Hirschsprung, and the couple took a profound interest in the arts and counted many prominent artists of their day among their close friends, including the writer Holger Drachmann and the painter Peder Severin Krøyer , both associated with the Skagen colony . Over a period of four decades, beginning in 1866, Hirschsprung built an extensive collection of Danish art from the beginning of

900-464: Was the daughter of wholesaler Daniel Simon (1791–1858) and Friederiche Jacobson née Gerhardt (1811–1855). Heinrich and Pauline had five children: Ellen, Ivar, Åge, Robert, and Oskar. They had their first apartment on Højbro Plads in Copenhagen and subsequently a house on Bredgade . They also had country homes in the north of Sjælland as well as in Italy . Hirschsprung began his art collection in 1866, with

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