vor frue kirke, copenhagen cathedral, 1811-1829.
architect: c.f.hansen, 1756-1845.
View On Black
early evening. looking towards the apse.
I don't know much about 19th century architecture, but I do love the way the barrel vault is supported on columns and how those columns double as a kind of ideal urban facade, turning the church space into a roman street or square.
would be great to see it with real candles.
apologies for not cleaning the lens...my daughter was on my left arm as I took this, now we all know where her fingers were.
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vor frue kirke, copenhagen cathedral, 1811-1829.
architect: c.f.hansen, 1756-1845.
view on black.
it's back to work in copenhagen and I have a million photos/buildings to show you.
the other day, my daughter and I managed to find our way in to the small museum housed in the enclosed ambulatory of copenhagen cathedral, vor frue kirke, and so we got to see the big round windows from the inside. the light was right out of hammershøi and the space was splendid. I have no recollection of the exhibition, though...
before showing you anything else from this summer, we have to go back to sicily for the final buildings we saw there - and I have comments and mails to answer, apologies for the long wait.
more copenhagen architecture.
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vor frue kirke, copenhagen cathedral, 1811-1829.
architect: c.f.hansen, 1756-1845.
burnt down, besieged and bombarded several times during the 18th and early 19th century, the central copenhagen we see today has only the labyrinthine street pattern of its medieval origin left; the houses are mostly classicist.
major monuments were designed by c.f.hansen, architect to the bankrupt king, who had so limited budgets to work with that he reused walls and foundations of the ruins he replaced.
copenhagen cathedral, lost to a british bombardment in 1807, thus kept the outer shape of its gothic predecessor but little of its expression as vertical lines became horisontal and recycled brickwork received a plaster finish.
c.f.hansen dominated Danish architecture for almost 50 years with a palladian classicism, the extreme simplicity of which appears informed by the french revolutionary architects. something of a dinosaur at the end of his career, he was scorned by younger colleagues and as the 19th century descented into victorian vulgarity, so were his buildings.
in the early years of the 20th century, they were under serious threat. when carlsberg published plans to change the church into a neo-baroque nightmare, a group of young architects defended hansen's architecture and saved the church from both popular opinion and the already enormous means and power of the carlsberg brewery.
the same group of architects would in turn dominate Danish architecture and in their early works they would mimic hansen's classicist simplicity.
his influence on the nordic architecture of the 1920's was considerable and can be seen, I believe, even in asplund's works in stockholm.
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vor frue kirke, copenhagen cathedral, 1811-1829.
architect: c.f.hansen, 1756-1845.
looking down the nave towards the entrance from the apse.
layered space, filtered light tempered by skylights - c.f.hansen's monumental interiors...
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vor frue kirke, copenhagen cathedral, 1811-1829.
architect: c.f.hansen, 1756-1845.
Tags: c.f.hansen hansen architecture arkitektur vor frue kirke church katedral cathedral apse apsis classicism classicist neoclassicism neoclassicist copenhagen københavn denmark danmark seier+seier creative commons CC