Hirschsprung Collection

This guide to the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen follows Heinrich Hirschsprung, a tobacco manufacturer whose 1874 purchase of four watercolors from a young Peder Severin Krøyer grew into a lifelong friendship and patronage. It traces how the couple kept collecting Danish nineteenth-century art, even work that unsettled them, and the decision they eventually made about what should happen to it all. A mosaic of tobacco plants sits in the entrance floor, a quiet nod to the trade that paid for every painting inside.