Ordrupgaard
Neoclassical country house and Zaha Hadid extension holding French Impressionist and Danish Golden Age paintings.
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This guide to Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen follows insurance director Wilhelm Hansen, who spent the last years of World War One buying Impressionist paintings, Cezannes, Manets, Gauguins, Renoirs, while other collectors held back, and opened his private rooms to the public starting in 1918. It turns on a spring morning in 1922, when the bank behind his art-buying spree collapsed and forced eighty-two French paintings to auction. Listen for what Hansen did next, and what his wife Henny chose to do with the house and collection after his death.
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