P. C. Skovgaard House

The P. C. Skovgaard House, located at Rosenvængets Hovedvej 27, is the former home of Danish Golden Age painter P. C. Skovgaard in the Rosenvænget Quarter of Østerbro in Copenhagen, Denmark. The house was completed to a Historicist design by Johan Daniel Herholdt in 1862 and listed onn the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1977.

P. C. Skovgaard House
Thott Mansion seen from the square
General information
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Location	Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Coordinates	55°42′4.43″N 12°35′3.05″E
Construction started	1860
Completed	1862
Client	P. C. Skovgaard
Design and construction
Architect	Johan Daniel Herholdt

History

P. C. Skovgaard: The artist's house in Rosenvænget under construction, 1860

Skovgaard purchased one of the first lots when Mozart Waagepetersen started the redevelopment of the Rosendal estate in Østerbro. Skovgaard knew the area well since his uncle, Hans Christian Aggersborg, with whom he had lived when he first moved to Copenhagen to study at the art academy, was the owner of the country house Villa Aggersborg at a nearby site.

Skovgaard, who had that same year become a titular professor at the art academy, in 1860 commissioned the architect Johan Daniel Herholdt to design a house for the site.[1]

Joakim Skovgaard in his studio, c. 1926

Skovgaard moved into the house with his wifeGeorgia and their two sons Joakim an Niels, on its completion in 1862. The couple was expecting their third child, Suzette, who was born on 29 January the following year. Georgia Skovgaard died in Copenhagen on 15 July 1868 while giving birth to a stillborn daughter.[2]

P. C. Skovgaard lived in the house until his death in 1875. It was then taken over by Joakim Skovgaard. He also had his studio at the site. He lived there until his death in 1933.[3] The house stayed in the Skovgaard family until 1971.

Architecture

The building was designed more as a practical workshop building for a painter than a home. It is built to a boxy design in yellow brick with ocher-coloured mortar. The walls were originally decomrated with corner lesenes, bands and window frames in red earth coloured finishing. The roof is a saddle roof. The windows are symmetrically arranged but of varying shapes and sizes. Doors and windows are painted green.

The interior was originally painted in Pompeian colours with black panels decorated with flowers and animal figures.[4]

References

1. "Sag: P.C. Skovgaards Villa". Kulturstyrelsen (in Danish). Retrieved 25 November 2019.
2. "Images tagged with #georgiaskovgaard on instagram". SocImage. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
3. "Residence register - S". indenforvoldene.dk. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
4. "København, Rosenvængets Hovedvej 27 A, P. C. Skovgaards hus". arkark.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 25 November 2019.

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