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Playful calves, innocent milkmaids, and climate polluting steaks... This summer celebrates the cow with an exhibition about its important place in Danish art and cultural history.

120 years ago, Johannes Hage, a landowner in Nivå, bought a genuine Rembrandt entitled Portrait of a 39-year-old Woman from 1632, which can be seen today at the Nivaagaard Collection. Historically, it has been suggested several times that the work may be a counterpart to the same artist's male portrait entitled Portrait of a 40-year-old man, which belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The two works previously belonged to the same private collection, from which they were sold in 1801, and there are several indications that the two works were once a pair.

Michael Kvium (b. 1955) has been called a neo-baroque artist, and the meeting between the Collection's own older art and Kvium's new works created for the exhibition WETLAND can only be fruitful.

For the first time in Denmark, at the Nivaagaard Collection we are featuring an exhibition of the English Bloomsbury Group. The group emerged as a powerful force within the cultural and intellectual circles of England in the early 1900s, known for their radical attitudes, anti-authoritarian outlook and a lifestyle that was considered transgressive by the social mores of the time. They lived out a utopia and conducted a radical social experiment that broke with the norms of the Victorian age. In many ways, they were harbingers of the debates we see playing out today in regards to gender, sexual identity, imperialism, colonialism and alternative lifestyles.

I samarbejde med Museum Kunst der Westküste ser vi frem til at kaste et nyt blik på den danske maler Janus la Cour (1837-1909). Nivaagaards Malerisamling ejer selv et stort værk af kunstneren foruden samlingen af dansk 1800-tals kunst fra generationen før la Cour, herunder læremesteren P.C. Skovgaard, som la Cour boede hos i sin studietid.