The lecture highlights how architect M.G. Bindesbøll's journey to Constantinople in the 1830s influenced his colourful and ornamented idiom. Peter Thule Kristensen examines how the encounter with Ottoman impressions and Nordic ideals shaped Bindesbøll's architecture and made him an early, globally oriented figure in Danish architecture.
Doors close at 17:00, so please arrive 10 minutes early.
Davids Samling is an art museum located in the heart of Copenhagen. The museum houses one of the grandest collections of art from the Islamic world in the West, as well as an outstanding selection of older European art and an exquisite representation of recent Danish…