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...assessing their land's varied artistic achievement, the critics and historians of Denmark rightly speak with pride, but wisely do not boast. "Ours is a little room," Art Historian Christian Elling once explained, "on the top floor of the big European museum." This week the U.S. public will be able to see just what the little room has produced. In Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, His Majesty King Frederik IX, accompanied by Queen Ingrid, will cut a golden ribbon to open the largest display of Danish art ever shown in the U.S.-a charming and sometimes dazzling...
Were the world of art limited only to painting and sculpture, something would seem to be rotten in Denmark. The kingdom has had its share of fine artists, but few were giants, and not all were even Danish. The greatest sculptor of 15th century Denmark, Claus Berg, was a German; the chief art adviser to King Christian IV was Dutch. Of the five leading painters in 18th century Denmark, one was French and two were Swedish, and it took a Frenchman, Joseph Saly, to put Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts on its feet. Even Denmark...
Carter Ford and Mike Lehman will pilot Crimson hopes for the Denmark Trophy in the International Invitational Dinghy Regatta at New London this afternoon and tomorrow...
...competition moved toward the finals last week, a battle shaped up between Poland's Witold Dobrzynski, who startled the audience with a dynamic, expert performance of Beauty and the Beast from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, and Denmark's Paul Jorgensen, who became an early favorite with his Victor Borge-like humor, which puzzled spectators but intrigued the judges. Wearing a perpetual wry grin, the Dane began his performance by tapping on the rack to silence not the musicians but the judges themselves. For all his humor, he was adept at dodging errors, at one point marched...
...night, the heat was oppressive. By day, it was impossible. Gulping salt tablets, the world's best athletes did their best to ignore the temperature and set out for glory in the 1960 Olympic Games. Grinding along in 100° heat, Denmark's Knud Enemark Jensen suddenly tumbled from his bicycle in the 100-kilometer race and died hours later of sunstroke. The death, the first in modern Olympic competition, shocked every athlete in Rome...