Hirschsprung Collection

The Hirschsprung Collection

Den Hirschsprungske Samling
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Established	1911
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Coordinates	55°41′23.64″N 12°34′38.89″E / 55.6899000°N 12.5774694°E / 55.6899000; 12.5774694
Type	Art museum
Website	www.hirschsprung.dk

The Hirschsprung Collection (Danish: Den Hirschsprungske Samling) is an art museum located on Stockholmsgade in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located in a parkland setting in Østre Anlæg, near the Danish National Gallery, and houses a large collection of Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century. The emphasis is on the Danish Golden Age, from 1800 to 1850, but also the Skagen Painters and other representatives of the Modern Breakthrough are well represented.

The museum is built around the personal art collection of Heinrich Hirschsprung, a tobacco manufacturer and patron of the arts who founded his art collection in 1865. Almost four decades later, in 1902, he donated it to the Danish state. It is displayed in a purpose-built Neoclassical museum building designed by Hermann Baagøe Storck and completed in 1911.