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Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

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Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Copenhagen was established on 31 March 1754 in Copenhagen,Denmark and was given as a gift to King Frederik V on his 31st birthday. Later in 1771, the name changed to the Royal Danish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. The building got boomed from the great fire of 1795 and changed its name again to the Royal Danish Academy of fine Arts but still located at its original building.

Danish Academy Of Fine Arts

• The academy is under the administration of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

• The Academy’s School of Architecture offers education in the fields of architectural design and restoration, urban and landscape planning and industrial, graphic and furniture design. The school has nine study departments, four research institutes and six affiliated research centres. The undergraduate course, leading to the Bachelor of Architecture diploma, lasts three years while the Master of Arts in Architecture is a two-year graduate course.

Maria Krøyer

• Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén was born on 11 June 1867 at Frederiksberg, Denmark. She was commonly known as Marie Krøyer and was a Danish painter. She was married to one of the greatest members of the artist's colony Peder Severin Krøyer known as Skagen Painters. In those days It was very difficult for women to train as artists, but she was talented and enjoyed the support of her parents. Marie was also a part of the small group of Danish painters in her own right From an early age, Marie aspired to become an artist, and after training privately in Copenhagen she went to Paris to continue her studies.

Painting Marie painted little while stays with krøyer. She considered her talent inferior and felt frustrated that she could not commit herself fully to art because she had accepted that her role was to be a housewife and mother but, still she painted her self-portrait in 1889 because she was known for personal beauty in her lifetime.

References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Danish_Academy_of_Fine_Arts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kr%C3%B8yer