Georg Brandes at the University of Copenhagen

Harald Slott-Møller painted Georg Brandes at the University of Copenhagen in 1889. The work depicts the critic and scholar Georg Brandes, and includes a cup and lectern in its composition.

The painting is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), where it remains on display. The canvas measures 948.0 by 822.0 cm.

Georg Brandes at the University of Copenhagen is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst. The painting measures 948.0 cm in height and 822.0 cm in width. No specific inventory or accession number, nor exhibition history, is supported by the available sources.

Harald Slott‑Møller’s 1895 canvas presents the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes delivering a lecture at the University of Copenhagen. Executed during the artist’s involvement with late‑19th‑century Impressionism, the work now belongs to the Statens Museum for Kunst’s permanent collection.

Georg Brandes was a leading voice in the Modern Breakthrough, championing realism and secular ideas in Scandinavian culture. By portraying him in an academic setting, Slott‑Møller underscores Brandes’s role as a public intellectual shaping university discourse at the turn of the century.