Copenhagen! Glyptotekshaven!

Copenhagen! Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek's Garden!

On our way to Nyhavn Canal the first day we arrived in Copenhagen we noticed this beautiful garden and had to go in and check it out! Thats the way I like to see a city, walking around and exploring and discovering everything for ourselves. We never take taxi's, buses, or bikes when we are in a big city we just like to walk because I love taking pictures of everything! Especially the architecture! Kevin said when we were walking "we could rent a bike but you like to take pictures of stuff like that (and pointed at a door)" lol he knows me well! 

A lot of whimsical sculptures in Copenhagen!

Aren't these peonies beautiful!?

The sculpture in the front is "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin. One of the most recognized works in all of sculpture. Rodin generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. Many of his most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality.

The garden was attached to the Ny Carlsberg Glypotek, which is an art Museum in Copenhagen mostly compiled of the personal collection of Carl Jacobsen, the son and founder of the Carlsberg breweries, which is a Danish brewing company founded in 1847. It's primarily a sculpture museum with antique sculpture from the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean including Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as more modern sculptures such as a collection of Rodin works. The museum is also known for there French impressionists and Post-impressionists as well as Danish Golden Age paintings, with works from artist including Jacques-Louis David, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas and Cézanne, as well as those by Post-impressionists such as van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard. 

The building is often noted for its elegance in its own right and the synthesis it creates with the works of art. The Dahlerup Wing, the oldest part of the museum, is a lavish historicist building. The façade is in red brick with polished granite columns in a Venetian renaissance style. It houses the French and Danish collections. The Kampmann Wing is a more simple, neo-classical building, built as a series of galleries around a central auditorium used for lectures, small concerts, symposiums and poetry readings. The two wings are connected by the Winter Garden with mosaic floors, tall palms, a fountain and topped by a dome made in copper and wrought iron. The Henning Larsen Wing is a minimalistic infill, built in a former inner courtyard and affording access to the roof.

Swedish Words of the Day:
Trädgård (pronounced "trey-d-gord") meaning Garden
Konst (pronounced "kownst") meaning Art
Skulptur (pronounced "skulp-torrr") meaning Sculpture

Danish Words of the Day:
Haven (pronounced "hay-ven") meaning Garden
Kunst (pronounced "koonst") meaning Art
Skulptur (pronounced "shkulp-tore") meaning Sculpture

PEACE & LOVE,
Kevin & Amanda