Sorø Art Museum

Sorø Art Museum is an art museum located in Sorø, Denmark. It displays a representative collection of Danish art as well as a collection of Russian art, covering both painting from 1870 to 1930 and Russian icons, and also hosts special exhibitions both of classical and contemporary art. The museum is housed within a listed Neoclassical house, part of a traditional Danish market town setting along Sorø's main street, which was expanded by the architects Lundgaard & Tranberg in 2011, tripling its size. Building The old building seen from the courtyard with one of the round skylights of the underground level The museum's original building was constructed from 1832 to 1834 as residence for the estate managers at Sorø Academy . It is a two-storey Late Neoclassical building over a high cellar, probably designed by Frederik Ferdinand Friis who also designed the Rectory at Sorø Academy. The facade, which faces Storgade, Sorø's main street, stands in blank red brick with white sandstone bands just below the windows, on a dressed ochre-coloured plinth . The rear side of the. Collection Nicolai Abildgaard 's version of Henry Fuseli 's 's The Nightmare , one of the oldest paintings in the museum's Danish collection Danish collection The oldest works in the Danish collection are wood carvings dating from the 13th to 16th centuries. Represented painters include Jens Juel , Nicolai Abildgaard , Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg , Christen Købke , Christen Dalsgaard and Harald Giersing . Hermod Lannung Collection of Russian art In 1997, the museum was bequeathed a sizeable collection of Russian art by the estate of former barrister Hermod Lannung. It contains some 100 paintings.