About the museum
The story of the Statens Museum for Kunst
Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark, grew from the Danish royal Kunstkammer. Its building in Copenhagen's Østre Anlæg park opened in 1896.
It holds Danish Golden Age painting by Eckersberg and Købke, European masters such as Mantegna and Rubens, and a major group of works by Matisse.
The collection
SMK's collection of about 260,000 works began in the Kunstkammer of the Danish kings. It includes Italian and Flemish painting, Rembrandt and Rubens, Danish Golden Age painters such as Eckersberg and Købke, and Vilhelm Hammershøi.
Its French collection, given by the engineer Johannes Rump, includes twenty-five works by Matisse, among them Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Line).
At ArtLogia you can order 107 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 61 artists led by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Carl Bloch and Henri Matisse.
- paintings to order
- 107
- artists
- 61
- art movements
- 14
- years covered
- 1342–1918
The building
Vilhelm Dahlerup and Georg E. W. Møller designed the building of 1896 in a historicist style. In 1998 C. F. Møller Architects added a white modern extension facing the park, joined by a glass 'Sculpture Street'.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The glass Sculpture Street joins the historic building to the modern extension along the park.
