From late 1958 to early 1963, Arthur (Addi) Køpcke and his wife, Tut, owned and operated a gallery in Copenhagen. Initially, the gallery mainly presented informal art, later the emphasis shifted to neorealism and Fluxus. The gallery attracted attention, mainly from artists, but also from galleries outside Denmark, as demonstrated by letters and other materials in the Arthur Køpcke Archive at the ARoS art museum in Aarhus. The archive has now been digitized and made accessible to the public.
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In 1825, the Kunstforeningen (the Art Association, now Kunstforeningen GL STRAND) was founded by High War Commissioner Johan Christian Fick together with J.L. Lund, C.W. Eckersberg and G.F. Hetsch – all three professors at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – landscape artist J.P. Møller, art historian N.L. Høyen and secretary J.M. Thiele. Over the following years, the association became an important forum for Danish art via commissions, raffles and, not least, exhibitions.
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