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Danish crafts and decorative arts is of particular interest to Norway because Norway was under Danish rule for many centuries. The political community also entailed a cultural community, with Denmark as the leading and mediating party. The king and court,…
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Prehistoric times From the younger Stone Age, ca. 3300–1500 BC, the remains of two long houses with a load-bearing construction of earthen posts, probably with walls of braided branches and clay, have been found in Barkær on the east coast…
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Baroque and Rococo The Church of Our Savior in Copenhagen with its characteristic twisting spire – Denmark’s first Baroque church. Significant for the development of the Danish Baroque, ca. 1660-1730, was the introduction of the monarchy and the emphasis that…
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1900s The SAS Hotel in Copenhagen, 1956-61. Newly built for the Royal Library in Copenhagen, The Black Diamond, which was inaugurated in 1999. The reaction to 19th century historicism was first ushered in by the Copenhagen City Hall (1892-1905) designed…
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Stone Age A number of finds from the Stone Age in Denmark give certain impressions of the art that has been created during this time. Animal figures of amber and some sketchy pictures carved on objects of bones and horns…
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Medieval Hans Brüggemann’s large, richly ornate bedside altarboard from Bordesholm with 398 finely carved figures is now found in the Schleswig Cathedral. After the Christianization of Denmark, a number of Romanesque stone churches were built, which were adorned with sculptures….
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Romance and realism The pioneers of Nordic outdoor painting, the Skagen painters, met from the 1870s in Skagen, attracted by the intense light over the land strip between the Skagerrak and the Kattegat. Michael Ancher’s painting Children and young girls…
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Denmark’s economic policy is close to Sweden and Norway, but the impact of planning economics and government business is somewhat lower. Like the rest of the Nordic countries, liberalization of the economy in Denmark has taken place in recent years,…
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Denmark’s prehistory is the story of the time from the first people settled in the country up to the Viking age. An arrowhead of flint from 12,500 BC. is Denmark’s oldest hunting gear. Older Stone Age As the masses of ice…
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Denmark’s true history begins only when the Viking age begins (around the year 800), and you get some written sources. Danish kings managed in the Viking Age to submit to both England and parts of today’s Norway and Sweden. During…
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