Jan 1, 2020

Listen to the letter Helge Jacobsen wrote to Wilhelm Hansen congratulating him on his collection of French paintings on the occasion of the inauguration of the Ordrupgaard Collection, a collection he would have liked to have seen created at the Glyptotek. Helge Jacobsen ends his letter with a correction to the register...

Jan 1, 2020

Listen to Carl Jacobsen’s last letter to his son Helge Jacobsen, written six days before he died. In the letter he scolds his son for his inelegant gait and asks him to make more of an effort. The note on the envelope “Papa’s last letter to me” has been added later by Helge Jacobsen.

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Jan 1, 2020

Listen to an excerpt from one of Carl Jacobsen’s letters to his son Helge Jacobsen. Helge was 21 at the time, and had started to develop an interest in modern French Art. As he makes clear in the letter, Carl Jacobsen does not share his son’s enthusiasm for the Impressionists.

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