The theme of The Sea is as immense as the sea itself. It is not, however, a motif that has attracted very many visual artists. Landscapes have been the preferred motif by far. Denmark has been and is still considered a sea-faring nation. The entire country borders on sea or fjords. The Vikings ventured into the world on expeditions of conquest, and later we gradually acquired a navy as well as a merchant fleet. Today Denmark builds some of the largest container ships in the world, and in certain parts of the country, sections of the population still make a living by fishing.
In The Sea we will focus on a few subordinate themes offering different tales of our relationship to the powerful sea, historically as well as from a contemporary angle. The exhibition will start off with a selection of sea battles such as C. A. Lorentzen’s dramatic painting, “The Battle of Copenhagen”, and C. W. Eckerberg’s beautiful seascapes. These will be followed by photographs by the Frenchman Gustave Le Gray, who, as early as the 1850s, took pictures of the sea breaking, as did his American colleague Thomas Joshua Cooper a hundred years later. A special part of the exhibition will be dedicated to the highly dramatic aspects of the mighty forces of nature and man’s fascination with them.
Else Alfelt (1910 - 1974); Anna Kirstine Ancher (1859 - 1935); Michael Peter Ancher (1849 - 1927); Hans Op de Beeck (1969); Carl Bille; Christian Vigilius Blache (1838 - 1920); Carl Baagøe; Helge Bertram (1919 - 1988); Oscar Gustaf Björck (1860 - 1929); Thomas Joshua Cooper (1946); Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883); Holger Drachmann; Dankvart Dreyer; Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783 - 1853); Torben Eskerod (1960); Elliott Erwitt (1928); Palle From; Fritz Henle (1909 - 1993); Jacob Hashimoto (1973); Einar Hein; Valdemar Irminger (1850 - 1938); Viggo Johansen (1851 - 1935); Ruprecht von Kaufmann (1974); Christian Krohg (1852 - 1925); Peder Severin Krøyer (1851 - 1909); Vilhelm Kyhn (1819 - 1903); Johannes Larsen (1867 - 1961); Carl Ludwig Locher (1851 - 1915); Gerhard Mantz (1950 - 2021); Michael Marten; Anton Melbye (1818 - 1875); Vilhelm Melbye; Anna Elisabeth Munch (1876 - 1960); Ulrik Møller; F. A. Mølsted; Carl Neumann; Thorvald Simon Niss (1842 - 1905); Pipilotti Rist (1962); Paul Pfeiffer (1966); Carl Rasmussen; Vilhelm Jacob Rosenstand (1838 - 1915); [Allan Sekula *1951 & Noël Burch *1932] Sekula & Burch; Fritz Syberg (1862 - 1939); Jens Andersen Søndergaard (1895 - 1957); Frits [Johan Frederik] Thaulow (1847 - 1906); Ernst Zeuthen (1880 - 1938); Bill Viola (1951 - 2024); Massimo Vitali (1944); Sigurd Wandel; Johannes Martin Fasting Wilhjelm (1868 - 1938); Flaske Peter;
Oswald Achenbach (1827 - 1905); Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871); Alois Auer (1813 - 1869); Frédéric Bazille (1841 - 1870); Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950); Basilius Besler (1561 - 1629); Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986); Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (1798 - 1840); Arnold Böcklin (1827 - 1901); Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947); Olga von Boznańska (1865 - 1940); Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894); Carl Gustav Carus (1789 - 1869); Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906); William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916); John Constable (1776 - 1837); Lovis Corinth (1858 - 1925); Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796 - 1875); Demetrio Cosola (1851 - 1895); Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877); Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1824); Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863); Maurice Denis (1870 - 1943); Alexandre François Desportes (1661 - 1743); Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins (1844 - 1916); Max Ernst (1891 - 1976); Erasmus Ritter von Engert (1796 - 1871); [Peter Fischli *1952 & David Weiss 1946-2012] Fischli & Weiss (1979); Georg Flegel (1566 - 1638); Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806); Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011); Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840); Conrad Gesner (1516 - 1565); Alexander Gierymski (1850 - 1901); Christian Friedrich Gille (1805 - 1899); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832); Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890); Frederick Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935); Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918); Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859); Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850 - 1920); Fernand Khnopff (1858 - 1921); Paul Klee (1879 - 1940); Max Klinger (1857 - 1920); Peder Severin Krøyer (1851 - 1909); Sir Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896); Charles Robert Leslie (1794 - 1859); Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808 - 1880); John Frederick Lewis (1805 - 1876); Max Liebermann (1847 - 1935); August Macke (1887 - 1914); Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883); Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954); Adolph von Menzel (1815 - 1905); Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717); Claude Monet (1840 - 1926); Angelo Morbelli (1853 - 1919); Berthe Morisot (1841 - 1895); Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944); Emil Nolde (1867 - 1953); Jacopo Palma il Vecchio (1480 - 1528); Louise von Panhuys (1763 - 1844); Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1745 - 1819); Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903); Wladyslaw Podkowinski (1866 - 1895); Ernest Quost (1842 - 1931); Auguste [Pierre-Auguste] Renoir (1841 - 1919); Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640); Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802 - 1858); Philipp Otto Runge (1777 - 1810); Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918); Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807 - 1863); Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794 - 1872); Hugo Gerhard Simberg (1873 - 1917); Max Slevogt (1868 - 1932); Carl Spitzweg (1808 - 1885); Thomas Struth (1954); Yoshihiro Suda (1969); William Henry Fox-Talbot (1800 - 1877); Johann Jakob Ulrich (1798 - 1877); François-André Vincent (1746 - 1816); Jeff Wall (1946); Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721); Hans Weiditz (1495 - 1537); Erik Theodor Werenskiold (1855 - 1938); Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765 - 1812); Ferdinand von Wright (1822 - 1906);
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