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Wed 11am-9pm, Thurs-Sun 11am-4pm; 25kr, Wed free. Bus #10, #14, #40, #42, #43, #184, #185 or Osterport S-Tog. Crossing Ostre Anlaeg from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts brings you to the back of the Greek-inspired Neoclassical pavilion which houses the Hirschsprung Collection , the best collection of nineteenth-century Danish art in the city. The collection was donated to the Danish state in 1902 by second-generation German-Jewish immigrant and tobacco magnate Heinrich Hirschsprung - there's a large portrait of him smoking a cigar in the entrance hall. Moving clockwise through the collection takes you through all the major periods of nineteenth-century Danish art. The Golden Age (roughly 1810-40) - an era when Danish cultural life flourished with the writings of Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kirkegaard, the sculpture of Thorvaldsen and the paintings of C.W. Eckersberg - is initially reflected through a collection of Eckersbergs, one of Denmark's first professional artists, whose work was rooted firmly in romantic and idealistic traditions ( Woman Before a Mirror is typical, with a poetic picture of a flesh-and-blood Venus de Milo), and his students, such as Christen Købke and William Bendz. In room 13 are the remarkable historical paintings of Kristian Zahrtmann, a late nineteenth-century artist known for his colourful portrayals of eighteenth-century royal scandals, such as the ill-starred liaison between Princesss Caroline Mathilde, the English wife of the particularly mad Christian VII, and prime minister Count Struensee (Caroline Mathilde was sent into exile in Germany; Struensee was hung for treason). Room 15 contains one of the collection's most popular paintings, Harold Slott-Møller's Spring , a simple but engaging painting of a young girl, her hair garlanded with yellow flowers. The haunting symbolism of the almost pre-Raphaelite paintings of Ejnar Nielsen and Vilhelm Hammershøi takes centre stage in room 19 - Nielsen's The Blind Girl is particularly melancholy. Room 20 contains a large collection of works by painters from Skagen - a town on the northernmost tip of the country renowned for its bewitching light - some of whom Hirschsprung personally supported. P.S. Krøyer's depictions of the beaches around Skagen give a real feel for the qualities of its strange light.
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