. . . Kastrupgård Collection in English.
Kastrupgård is a former manor house in Kastrup on Amager, a suburb of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Dating back to the mid-1700s, Kastrupgård is now a museum housing the Kastrupgård collection of modern art, owned and operated by the municipality of Tårnby.
The beautiful Kastrupgård was designed and built by sculptor, court stonemason and architect Jacob Fortling (1711-1761) as a country house in the mid-18th century.
Fortling came to Denmark from Germany.
Kastrupgård was built as a rococo complex, but due to many fires, it was rebuilt several times.
The gatehouse dates from Fortling’s time, but the neoclassical appearance of the main building dates from the 1790s.
Fortling was an enterprising man who ran a lime kiln, brickworks, brandy and beer brewery in Kastrup, and he also started a stoneware and earthenware factory. Saltholm, a small Danish island in Øresund just 5 kilometers east of Amager, had natural deposits of lime, which was used for pottery.
In 1997, the interior of Kastrupgård was restored and brought back to an almost original appearance with a color scheme that matches the archaeological color samples that can be seen on some of the panels.
The main focus of the art museum is graphic and modern art, but you can also see a fine collection and works by painter Theodor Philipsen (1840-1920), as well as earthenware from Kastrup Værk.
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