Selected grants

Johan Laurentz Jensen was the leading flower painter of the golden age of Danish art. He portrayed the contemporary perception of nature and cultural ideals in complex still lifes. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Øregaard Museum can now add his 1838 painting Colourful bouquet of flowers in a Greek vase on a stone ledge with shells to its collection.

Anette Harboe Flensburg and Eske Kath are prominent artists in the contemporary Danish art scene. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation the Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design is now adding principal works by the two Danish visual artists to its permanent collection of paintings.

Since late March, Sophia Kalkau has occupied the entire underground floor of Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg with the grandiose special exhibition ‘The Material and the Egg’. With a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the art museum in Aalborg has now been able to buy two of the principal works from the exhibition for its collection.

Until 23 September, one of France’s biggest museums of modern art presents a large retrospective exhibition about the Danish artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba. In addition to funding the exhibition catalogue, the New Carlsberg Foundation recently donated one of Ferlov Mancoba’s principal works to the Parisian museum.

The Hirschsprung Collection has acquired Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Selvportæt (Self-Portrait), painted in Paris in 1891.

Principal work by Poul Gernes to represent Danish post-war art in the United States. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., adds the important piece to its collection.

KØS museum of art in public spaces is expanding its collection of building-related art. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation the museum has acquired an extensive collection of studies and sketches underlying six innovative decorative projects for hospitals.

When the retrospective exhibition of Sonja Ferlov Mancoba’s art at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark closes in mid May, a group of works will remain at the museum. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation SMK adds four monumental plaster sculptures and four drawings to its collection.

Erik A. Frandsen’s work Untitled (Haiti) contains references to art history but also suggests a future path in the artist’s multifaceted oeuvre. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Horsens Art Museum has now acquired the mosaic for its collection.

Eugène Leroy’s paintings consist of so many layers of oil paint that the image almost disappears. With a donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Louisiana now acquires one of the artist’s most significant works.

Tacita Dean’s dramatic photogravure Quarantania has an intense visual presence. The New Carlsberg Foundation has secured this important work of art by the British artist for Louisiana Museum of Modern Art north of Copenhagen. The photogravure demonstrates Dean’s persistent interest in our recollection of the past and its impact on the presence.

With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation and others, the Hirschsprung Collection has acquired the outstanding painting Marie Krøyer, painted in 1890 by P.S. Krøyer during the couple’s honeymoon in Italy. The painting is an important element in the story about the subject matter that characterizes Krøyer’s artistic practice.

With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Esbjerg Art Museum has acquired a five-part ensemble by the sculptor Tina Maria Nielsen. Together, the five elements incorporate a range of ideas and themes that have occupied a principal role in Nielsen’s extensive conceptual practice.

Parti af torvet i Amalfi (View of the square in Amalfi) is a quintessential Danish Golden Age architecture painting. It affirms Rørbye’s position during the period as a great analytical talent and an artist with a bold choice of images. With support form the New Carlsberg Foundation SMK, the national gallery of Denmark, now adds the important Rørbye painting to its Danish Golden Age collection.

The French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster draws on film history, gender theory and pop culture in her aesthetic video installation Cinema (QM.15) from 2016. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation ARoS has now acquired the work. It is included in ‘Far From Home’, a presentation of the museum’s own collection that opens on 30 November.

At Christie’s Auctions in New York, the Glyptotek recently acquired Le chêne de roche, painted in 1860 by the French artist Théodore Rousseau. A donation from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the painting is an important addition to the representation of Rousseau’s work in Glyptotek’s French collection.