Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Gustav III's Visit to the academy 1780 (Martin)
Model Class at the academy c. 1824 (Lorentzen)
Model Class at the academy 1826 (Bendz)
Danish art is the visual arts produced in Denmark or by Danish artists. It goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot. For many early periods, it is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia. Art from what is today Denmark forms part of the art of the Nordic Bronze Age, and then Norse and Viking art. Danish medieval painting is almost entirely known from church frescos such as those from the 16th-century artist known as the Elmelunde Master.
The Gundestrup cauldron
Gothic frescos in Elmelunde Church
Landscape with Northern Lights - Attempt to Paint the Aurora Borealis, 1790s, by Jens Juel.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Woman in front of a Mirror, 1841. French Neo-Classicism transmuted into Biedermeier style.