Sculpture and other spatial art
Examples. See
details below.
The museum owns about 100 original sculptures, mainly in the
smaller formats - for example statuettes, portrait heads and busts.
The works were created from the end of the nineteenth century until
about 1960; the major work in this collection is the large
Abyssinian by Johannes C. Bjerg from 1914-15. The bulk of the
sculpture col¬lection is from the period 1930-60, and the
figurative tradition of that period is quantitatively best
represented in the collection, in which the sculptor Gottfred
Eickhoff (1902-1982), with 16 sculptures, enjoys a special
position.
Within the more sparsely represented abstract sculpture from the
period, Sven Dalsgaard (1914-1999) in particular stands out with a
total of 11 sculptures from the period 1949-1960. Dalsgaard's
sculptures all came to the museum in 1984 as part of the art
bequest from the leading civil servant Erik C. Mengels
(1908-1983).
In addition there is a small collection of ceramic sculptures,
pots and dishes, mainly from the period 1940-1980.
Plaster casts
Besides the original sculptures, the museum owns a small
selection of plaster casts; the majority are casts, in the less
costly material plaster, of original sculptures in mar¬¬ble or
bronze; a few are so-called original models, an intermediate stage
in the sculptural process between clay and stone/bronze. The casts
came to the col¬lection in the earliest years of the museum, mostly
in the period c. 1890-1915. Of the collection, about 30 works are
preserved today, and a fairly large selection of these are usually
exhibited in Hall 5 at Fuglsang Kunstmuseum.
Examples:
Johannes Bjerg,
Abyssinian (1914-15). Photo Ole Akhøj
Gottfred Eichoff,
Gerda II (1932) - Photo Ole Akhøj
Helge Holmskov,
Girl Shipping. (1955)
Robert Jacobsen,
Iron sculpture, 1949. Photo Ole Akhøj
Plaster casts.
Photo Finn Brasen