Carl Jacobsen’s Correspondence Archive

The New Carlsberg Foundation is in the process of digitizing the extensive letter archives belonging to Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the New Carlsberg Foundation. Many letters have already been made available in the online Carl Jacobsen's Correspondence Archive, and over the coming years, the master brewer’s correspondence with artists and archaeologists and others who contributed to the history of the foundation and of the Glyptotek will be placed online in full. Start your search here.

INTRODUCTION

Carl Jacobsen’s Correspondence Archive

Carl Jacobsens Brevarkiv

The New Carlsberg Foundation is in the process of digitizing the extensive letter archives belonging to Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the New Carlsberg Foundation.

CORRESPONDENCE ARCHIVE 1900–1913

Bringing Rodin to Copenhagen

Rodin til København Carl Jacobsens Brevarkiv

Between 1890 and 1913, Carl Jacobsen exchanged numerous letters with the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

CORRESPONDENCE ARCHIVE 1881–1890

The birth of the Empress statues

Kejserindestatuernes fødsel Carl Jacobsens Brevarkiv

Read Carl Jacobsen’s extensive correspondence with French sculptors Gautherin and Chapu.

CORRESPONDENCE ARCHIVE 1888-1909

Carl Jacobsen and P.S. Krøyer

P.S. Krøyer Carl Jacobsens Brevarkiv

In 1888, Carl Jacobsen organized a large exhibition of French art in Copenhagen.

CORRESPONDENCE ARCHIVE 1880–1914

Carl as a husband and father

Carl Jacobsens Brevarkiv

The family letters complete the image of Carl Jacobsen as a multifaceted person.