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Romantic Paintings
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Per Kirkeby is one of Denmark’s
most important living artists. This
early collage from 1965 uses clippings
from popular magazines and comics
as a homage to Pop Art.
Please,
Key to Floorplan Keep 4
Ground floor Quiet!
First floor
Second floor
The Wheel 2
of Life Artemis
Portrait of 9
Artemis Madame Created in 1893–4,
9 Matisse Vilhelm Hammershøi’s
0 painting (above) shows
the goddess Artemis
crowned with a crescent
moon. The painting’s
Arcadian nudity, lack of
The depth, muted palate and
X-Room enigmatic coolness are
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typical of Hammershøi’s
later work.
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Portrait of
Alice 0
Madame
Matisse
Also known as The Green
Stripe, this painting by
Henri Matisse of his wife
8 was to have far-reaching
Romantic repercussions in the art
Paintings world. It was one of
1 several radical paintings
The Meeting of shown in the 1905 Salon
Joachim and Anne
5 Sculpture d’Automne and helped
Street outside the Golden give rise to the Fauvist
Gate of Jerusalem
6 movement, known for
Statens Christ as the its bright colours and
Museum for Kunst Floorplan Suffering Redeemer spon taneous style.
NEED TO KNOW • The children’s museum Øster Voldgade. The lobby
MAP J2 • Sølvgade 48– provides activities every has temporary exhibitions
50 • www.smk.dk weekend throughout the and a bookshop. The entire
summer holidays. ground floor is taken up by
Open 11am–5pm Tue– • The bright, stylish Sculpture Street, with
Sun (until 8pm Wed)
museum café looks out 20th-century Danish and
Adm 110 Dkr; under-30s onto Østre Anlæg Lake. international art in the
85 Dkr; under-18s free In good weather, the park extension of the first and
Free guided tours available is ideal for a picnic. second floor. The old main
building houses European
• The prints and drawings Museum Guide art 1300–1800, Danish and
collection dates back to Enter the museum from Nordic art 1750–1900 and
the 15th century. the corner of Sølvgade and French art 1900–1930.

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