Danish Masterworks coming to Scandinavia House in New York City October 12, 2013 – January 18, 2014

EXHIBITION OF 19TH AND EARLY 20TH-CENTURY DANISH MASTERWORKS TO OPEN AT SCANDINAVIA HOUSE

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) announces to The Danish Pioneer Newspaper readers about the upcoming exhibition Danish Paintings from the Golden Age to the Modern Breakthrough: Selections from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr., which runs Saturday, October 12, 2013 through Saturday, January 18, 2014 at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, NYC.

Drawn from the distinguished private collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr., Danish Paintings from the Golden Age to the Modern Breakthrough traces the developments in Danish art from the early 19th through the early 20th centuries-a period that saw the emergence of a distinctive national approach to painting in Denmark.

Composed of 37 paintings and drawings, the exhibition features the work of a range of artists, including Nicolai Abildgaard, the first history painter of note to be trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; the “Danish Golden Age” artists Christen Købke, L.A. Smith, and Vilhelm Kyhn; and the modern painters Berthe Wegmann, Anna and Michael Ancher, P.S. Krøyer, and his pupils Harald Slott-Møller and the internationally-renowned Vilhelm Hammershøi.

Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America is located at 58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street, New York, NY 10016. For more information, please visit www.scandinaviahouse.org or www.amscan.org