Exhibition Catalogues

*Mogens Bøggild på Thorvaldsens Museum

By William Gelius, Rasmus Kjærboe og Stig Miss
2013, 110 pp., ill.
Catalogue for the exhibition AS IN NATURE - The Sculptor Mogens Bøggild. Shown at Thorvaldsens Museum from March 21 to September 1, 2013.

ISBN: 978 87 7521 130 2

DKK 68

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Bertel Thorvaldsen: Der Bildhauer als Zeichner

By Margrethe Floryan and Laila Skjøthaug
German Edition
2011, 120 pp., ill.
Catalogue to accompany the exhibition of Thorvaldsen’s sketches in the Winckelmann Museum in Stendal during the period 2 December 2011 to 12 February 2012.

ISBN: 978 34 47 06400 2

DKK 99

Danish Masters 1800-1850

Ed.: Peter Nørgaard & Sven Bjerkhof
Russian Edition
2011, 127 pp., ill.
The exhibition “Danish Masters 1800-1850” was shown in the Pushkin Museum from September 6 to November 6, 2011. The exhibition was a collaboration between Thorvaldsens Museum and the National Gallery of Denmark.

ISBN: 978 87 92 02358 3

DKK 125

Elmgreen & Dragset

By William Gelius
2011, 28 pp., ill.
English summaries
The exhibition featuring the internationally renowned duo Elmgreen & Dragset presents a refreshing angle on Thorvaldsen today.

ISBN: 978 87 7521 126 5

DKK 20

*AFTENLANDET. Motiver og stemninger i dansk landskabsmaleri omkring år 1800

By Stig Miss, Gertrud Hvidberg Hansen og Birgitte Zacho (Ed.)
2011, 204 pp., ill.
The authors see Danish landscape painting from c. 1780 to 1810 in a completely new light.

ISBN: 978 87 7521 122 7

DKK 98

Mit dem Blick des Zeichners

By Klaus Weschenfelder and Christiane Wiebel (Ed.)
2009, 343 pp., ill.
German Edition
Catalogue for the exhibition "WUNDERLAND Drawings by the German Romantics" at Thorvaldsens Museum from September 15 to December 12, 2010.

ISBN: 978 34 22 06896 4

DKK 99

* Astrid Noack på Thorvaldsens Museum

By Martin Erik Andersen, William Gelius,
Jacob Helbo Jensen and Stig Miss
2009, 69 pp., ill.
Astrid Noack is a loner in Danish art. Between 1925 and 1954, she created a series of unique and timeless sculptures, a selection of which was presented in Thorvaldsens Museum.

ISBN: 978 87 7521 115 9

DKK 35

Den franske forbindelse

By D. Mulliez, E. Hansen, G. Algreen-Ussing,
T. Gunnarsson and M. Schmid
2008, 92 pp., ill.
100 years with Danish architects at the French School of Archaeology in Athens.

DKK 50

Mosaics from Ravenna

By Don Giovanni Montanari
Text in Danish, Italian and English
2008, 80 pp., ill.
The Italian city of Ravenna is famous throughout the world for its incredible mosaics from the 5th and 6th centuries. Today, the mosaics are on the UNESCO list of the world’s most important cultural treasures. In the 1950s, Ravenna’s Academy of Fine Arts made copies of the artistically most valuable of the mosaics.

DKK 49

* 2 + 1 Antikke smykker, lamper og masker i Thorvaldsens Museum

By Torben Melander
2006, 111 pp., ill.
The ancient jewellery, lamps and masks that form part of Thorvaldsen’s private Collection from ancient Egypt and Greece and the Roman Empire are often overlooked. This was made up for in 2006, when at a special exhibition the Museum put the spotlight on these artefacts. Read about earrings, oil lamps and the biggest collection of signet rings in Scandinavia.

ISBN: 87 7521 1122

DKK 49

* ud! ude. hjem! en stedsspecifik fotoinstallation af søren lose

By William Gelius and Britta Timm Knudsen
2006, 40 pp., ill.
Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings is on permanent display in the museum. The artist Søren Lose here created a photographic installation that set them all off against his own contemporary work.

ISBN: 87 7521 1106

DKK 35

Writing is an Act of Love

By A. Becker, M. Christiansen, S. Miss,
N. B. Wamberg and J. Lund
2005, 96 pp., ill.
An intimate study of Hans Christian Andersen through his diaries and almanacs. They are of great importance if we are to gain an insight into his special way of writing. The exhibition was mounted in Copenhagen, Paris and Alexandria, and the catalogue is available in Danish, English and Arabic.

ISBN: 87 7521 1076

DKK 29

* Alt dandser, tro mit Ord!

By O. Nørlyng, T. Melander, S. Miss,
G. Hvidberg-Hansen, W. Gelius, C. Christensen and K. B. Johannesen
2005, 216 pp., ill.
Ballet, folk dance and open air dance events – dance as reproduced in Danish visual art and sculpture during the period 1750-1850.

ISBN: 87 7521 1068

DKK 99

* Hvid marmor

By William Gelius, Stig Miss et al.
2004, 78 pp., ill.
After a number of years as a half forgotten and disparaged material, white marble has now made its comeback in modern Danish art, where comprehensive and experimental use is being made of sculpture’s classic material.

ISBN: 87 7521 104 1

DKK 59

* J.C. Dahl i Danmark

By William Gelius, Knut Ormhaug,
Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick and Nana Bernhardt
2003, 115 pp., ill.
J.C. Dahl (1788-1857) was of great significance in landscape painting in Norway, Denmark and Germany. The focus here is on his Danish works.

ISBN: 87 7521 1017

DKK 35

* V E R S U S

2003, 21 pp., ill.
The photographer Trine Søndergaard has photographed the staff of the museum along with their individual favourites among Thorvaldsen works.

ISBN: 87 7521 098 3

DKK 45

* Afmagt. Dansk billedhuggerkunst
1850 til 1900

By Stig Miss, Ernst Jonas Bencard, Luisa Passeggia, Margrethe Floryan,
Nana Bernhardt and Gitte Smed
2002, 326 pp., ill.
After Thorvaldsen, sculptors were brought almost to a state of paralysis by the influence of the great master. They found it enormously difficult to break with Thorvaldsen’s neo-classicism and to open their studio doors just a little to modern developments.

ISBN: 87 7521 097 5

DKK 98

* Under samme himmel. Land og by i dansk og tysk kunst 1800-1850

By S. Miss, K. Monrad, S. B. Frandsen,
H. R. Leppien, H. Börsch-Supan, W. Gelius and C. Johnston
2000, 282 pp., ill.
This catalogue adds a new facet to our knowledge of the Danish Golden Age.

ISBN: 87 7521 0916

DKK 99

* Asmus Jacob Carstens’ og Joseph Anton Kochs værker i Thorvaldsens Museum

By Stig Miss, Gertrud With and Jan Drees
2000, 128 pp., ill.
Drawings by the visionary artists Carstens and Koch along with such of Thorvaldsen’s own drawings as can directly be related to their work.

ISBN: 87 7521 090 8

DKK 35

* Skulpturens væsen

By Eva Henschen
1996, 60 pp., ill.
If you want to learn something about sculpture, this is where you can make a start. On the basis of examples of sculpture from Thorvaldsen’s time to the present day, the book presents a series of useful approaches to the
understanding of sculpture such as form, rhythm and balance. As the author writes, “There is a touch of magic hidden in every sculpture” . – Find that magic here.

ISBN: 87 7521 077 0

DKK 129

* 1796 København som kulturby

Text by Margrethe Floryan, Thomas Kappel,
Torben Melander and Stig Miss
1996, 135 pp., ill.
What sort of a cultural centre did Thorvaldsen leave in 1796 on leaving for Rome? The authors throw light on this by means of selected examples of cultural life in the city – from the Academy of Fine Arts to the Royal Theatre.

ISBN: 87 7521 075 4

DKK 50

Copenhagen as it was in 1796

Text in English
By Margrethe Floryan, Thomas Kappel,
Torben Melander and Stig Miss
1996, 135 pp., ill.
What sort of a cultural centre did Thorvaldsen leave in 1796 on leaving for Rome? The authors throw light on this by means of selected examples of cultural life in the city – from the Academy of Fine Arts to the Royal Theatre.

ISBN: 87 7521 0789

DKK 50

* Jørgen Sonne 1801-1890

By Nina Damsgaard, Dyveke Helsted, Eva Henschen and Bjarne Jørnæs
1988, 220 pp., ill.
This book provides a comprehensive account of Sonne’s extensive oeuvre, which culminated with the creation of the frieze on the museum façade. Among the works in Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings there are also works by Sonne.

ISBN: 87 7521 039 8

DKK 149