The article analyzes Denmark's participation in the Venice Biennale in the period 1940-60 - including the Danish participation in the fascist 'War Biennale' during World...
This article situates I Am Queen Mary (2018) by Virgin Island artist La Vaughn Belle and Danish-Caribbean artist Jeannette Ehlers, and examines the reception of the...
In Norse mythology, the Norns are a group of supernatural beings. In the article, the author examines how the Norns have been portrayed in Danish...
This article is part of a series of articles about the Danish painter Wilhelm Marstrand (1810–73) published on the occasion of the exhibition Wilhelm Marstrand...
In 1854 the Danish newspaper Dagbladet proclaimed the existence of two factions on the Danish art scene: ‘National’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’. This article discusses Wilhelm Marstrand's...
Hans Smidth (1839-1917) was a renowned artist in his own day. However, only few of his paintings can be conclusively dated, a fact that has...
In this article, the author examines the impact of a range of Danish artists' stay in Paris from the mid-1870s to the early 1890s, where...
For more than 20 years after the end of World War II, the human figure constitutes what one might call the ‘elephant in the room’...
Around 1900, the Danish painter Kristian Zahrtmann creates a queer persona which cannot be separated from his art. In numerous paintings, he references himself, his...
The scene in Kristian Zahrtmann’s (1843-1917) Sokrates and Alkibiades, painted in 1911, is taken from Plato’s Symposium, which was one of the most widely used...
