Fyns Kunstmuseum description and photos - Denmark: Odense (Topic)

Fyns Kunstmuseum description and photos - Denmark: Odense. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Fyns Kunstmuseum.

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The Funen Museum of Fine Arts is located in the very center of Odense - opposite the palace and the former monastery church of St. Hans (John). This museum is one of the oldest museums of fine arts in all of Denmark.

The ancestor of the museum was the Odense Palace itself, which was used in the middle of the 19th century for administrative purposes only partially. In 1860, it was decided to open an art gallery in the unused halls of the palace. Only in 1885 was the solemn official opening of the Funen Museum carried out. At the same time, he moved to his new building on Jernbanegade Street, where he is still located.

The building of the museum is made in the style of the classicism era and is distinguished by an exquisitely decorated pediment with columns, made like an ancient temple. The pediment is crowned with a frieze on which a variety of subjects from Scandinavian mythology and Danish history are presented.

The collection of the museum consists mainly of works by Danish artists. It contains works by the realist artist Peder Severin Kreyer, Brendekilde, who worked in the style of socialist realism, and many other paintings by contemporary artists of the 20th century, mainly constructivists.

The oldest works belong to the junction of the 18th and 19th centuries. Of particular note is the infamous Dunkwart Dreyer, a young artist who died in 1852 at the age of 36 from typhus. He painted amazing landscapes of Danish nature, but the society, which at that time was focused on the ideology of national identity, did not accept his work, considering them not strong and deep enough. Unable to withstand critical attacks, Dreyer stopped exhibiting his work, and many of them were discovered and properly appreciated only many years after his death, at the beginning of the 20th century.

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