Ribe Kunstmuseum is the name of the art museum in Ribe

Ribe

Ribe , the oldest extant Danish town, is in southwest Jutland and has a population of 8,192 . Until 1 January 2007, it was the seat of both the surrounding municipality, and county...

, the oldest town of 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...

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Ribe Kunstmuseum was inaugurated in 1891.
Since then it has been housed in one of the most important private buildings in Ribe: The factory owner Balthazar Giørtz' large private establishment, built 1860-64 after drawings made by the royal surveyor L A Winstrup.

Collection

The collections show the main line of Danish pictorial art from c. 1750 to 1940 including masterpieces by

• Jens Juel
  Jens Juel (painter)
  Jens Juel was a Danish painter, primarily known for his many portraits, of which the largest collection is on display at Frederiksborg Castle.-Early life and career:...
  
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• C.W. Eckersberg
• Christen Købke
  Christen Købke
  Christen Schiellerup Købke , Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete. He was one of 11 children...
  
  
• Kristian Zahrtmann
  Kristian Zahrtmann
  Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, was a Danish painter. He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Krøyer and Theodor Esbern Philipsen, who broke away from both the strictures of traditional Academicism and the...
  
  
• L.A. Ring
• P.S. Krøyer
• Anna og Michael Ancher
• William Scharff