Bertel thorvaldsen museum of flight

Museum in Copenhagen

The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to the art of Danish and Icelandic Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life (1796–1838).

The museum is located on the small island of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen next to Christiansborg Palace. Designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, the building was constructed from 1838 to 1848 following a public collection of funds in 1837.

History

The idea of a Bertel Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen emerged in the mid-1830s.

Artist.

See sculptures created by sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, whose work can be found across Europe.

The Flight into Egypt.

The Flight into Egypt.

The drawing, which represents a Phoenician creation myth dating to circa BCE, was owned by Thorvaldsen himself and is now in the Thorvaldsens Museum.

A committee was in December 1836 set up at the initiative of Hans Puggaard. Its members included Joakim Frederik Schouw, Henrik Nicolai Clausen, Niels Laurits Høyen, Hermann Ernst Freund, Jonas Collin and Just Mathias Thiele. On 10 January 1837, it launched a nation-wide fund raising campaign.

The following 15 men were elected as board members on a General Assembly held on 2