Fuglesang Art Museum is an art museum set in rural surroundings in Guldborgsund Municipality

Guldborgsund municipality

Guldborgsund is a municipality in Region Sjælland in Denmark, spanning the Guldborgsund strait. It covers an area of 907 km² and a total population of 63,496 . Its administrative seat is in the town of Nykøbing Falster...

 on the island of Lolland

Lolland

Lolland is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of 1,243 square kilometers . Located in the Baltic sea, it is part of Region Sjælland...

 in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. It is part of the Fuglsang Cultural Centre. The museum features Danish art with an emphasis on artists and motifs of local provenance

Provenance

Provenance, from the French provenir, "to come from", refers to the chronology of the ownership or location of an historical object. The term was originally mostly used for works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including science and computing...

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The museum is located in a purpose-built building, designed by Tony Fretton

Tony Fretton

Tony Fretton is a British architect known for his residential and public gallery buildings, as well as other British and international design work. He graduated from the Architectural Association and worked for various practices including Arup, Neyland and Ungless, and Chapman Taylor, before...

. Noted for its integration with the surrounding architecture and landscape, the museum building won a 2009 RIBA European Award and was shortlisted for the Stirling prize

Stirling Prize

The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects...

 the same year.

History

An architecture competition for the design of a building was won by Tony Fretton in May 2005 . Construction started in August 2006 and the museum was inaugurated in January 2008.

Building

The Fuglesang Art Museum is located in a white-washed, modernistic building, designed to fit into the existing architecture of the Fuglesang estate and the surrounding landscape.

The galleries are arranged around a long corridor which in itself serves as a significant exhibition space. At the end of the corridor is a small room with three large windows, one, sloghtly off set from the axis, visible frim the corridor. With no artworks displayed, it is entirely dedicated to contemplation and vires of the outside landscape.

On one side of the corridor are fairly small galleries with gold ornaments inspired by the architecture of the adjoining Fuglsang manor house. These are dedicated to smaller scale works. On the other side of the corridor are larger toplit galleries.

Collections

The museum houses an exquisite collection of Danish art from the end of the 18th century until today and includes paintings, sculptures and sketches. The collection has an emphasis on artists and motifs of local attachment.

Paintings

The museum holds app. 500 paintings, with a few dating from the late 18th century and the Danish Golden Age during the first half of the 19th century, while the main emphasis of the collection is in paintings from around 1900. Represented are important Danish artists like the Skagen Painters, the Fynboerne, Theodor Philipsen

Theodor Philipsen

Theodor Philipsen was a Danish painter.Philipsen has been considered an innovator of 19th century Danish art. He took Danish art into a new level of impressionism and naturalism. He was influenced by French art, this influence beginning in his first time in Paris from 1874–1876...

, L. A. Ring

L. A. Ring

Laurits Andersen Ring was one of the foremost painters of Danish symbolism. He was born as Laurits Andersen in the village Ring in southern Zealand. In 1881 he the took the name of his birth place, and was since known as L.A...

 and Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Vilhelm Hammershøi , often written in English Vilhelm Hammershoi , was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, low-key portraits and interiors. In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honor.-Life:...

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Sculpture

The collection features around 199 sculptures, dating from the late 19th century to 1950. The main emphasis is on the period 1930-50.

Works on paper

The museum's extensive collection of drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

s, watercolour

Watercolor painting

Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...

s and particularly graphic works are mainly from the 20th century.

Exhibitions & other activities

Fuglsang Art Museum has variable showings of their own works and arranges several special exhibitions annually. Moreover, the showings and special exhibitions are complemented with a diverse programme of arrangements and presentations. There is also an interdisciplinary school service attached to the museum.