Ordrupgaard
Sign in to saveOrdrupgaard is a state-owned art museum situated near Jægersborg Dyrehave, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The museum houses one of Northern Europe's most important collections of Danish and French art from the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
Key facts
- Museum.imagesize
- 220
- Museum.name
- Ordrupgaard
- Museum.image
- Ordupgaard Copenhagen Zaha Hadid 1.jpg
- Museum.established
- 1918
- Museum.location
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Museum.type
- Art museum
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ordrupgaard.dk
- Image
- Ordrupgaards hovedbygning set fra parken.jpg
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- postal code
- 2920
- Commons category
- Ordrupgaard
- inception
- 1918-01-01
- Commons Institution page
- Ordrupgaard
- street address
- Vilvordevej 110, 2920 Charlottenlund, Danmark
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Collection
- Danish arts collection
- French fine arts collection
- Furniture and handicrafts collection
- Buildings
- Park
- Finn Juhl house
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- Other sources
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Ordrupgaard is a state-owned art museum situated near Jægersborg Dyrehave, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The museum houses one of Northern Europe's most important collections of Danish and French art from the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
==History== Ordrupgaard was originally a country home built between 1916 and 1918 by Wilhelm Hansen and his wife Henny Nathalie Soelberg Jensen (1870-1951). Wilhelm Peter Henning Hansen was the Danish general representative of the English-based Life Insurance company Gresham for two decades. In 1896, he founded the Danish-based life insurance company Dansk Folkeforsikringsanstalt. Later, he also founded the internationally oriented insurance company Mundus. In 1905, Danish insurance company Hafnia appointed to their managing director. He held the office until 1936.
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