The Corner painters in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 first came together in 1932 when they decided to hold an exhibition in a meeting hall inside an office building on the corner of Vester Voldgade and Studiestræde in the centre of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. The group was soon referred to simply as Corner.

Among its earlier members were Karl Bovin

Karl Bovin

Karl Bovin was a Danish painter who specialized in landscapes of his native Odsherred in the north west of Zealand.He was interested in art from an early age. In the 1920s, he cycled to the artists paradise Skagen in the north of Jutland to show Anna and Michael Ancher some of his early work...

, Victor Brockdorff, Povl Christensen, Kaj Ejstrup, Lauritz Hartz

Lauritz Hartz

Lauritz Hartz was a Danish artist, considered to be one of the country's finest colourists.Hartz studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen under Sigurd Wandel and Aksel Jørgensen where he quickly gained a reputation as a talented artist.Suffering from schizophrenia, his health...

, Alfred Simonsen, and Erik Raadal.

Today, with its 42 members, it is the second largest artists association in Denmark. Regular exhibitions are still held, attracting thousands of visitors. The artists themselves are made up of painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. They meet regularly and arrange annual exhibitions which attract large number of visitors.