LOUISIANA

The founder of Louisiana, Knud W. Jensen, and Gunnar Didrichsen were good friends and shared an interest for modern art and architecture. Villa Didrichsen has even been called "mini Louisiana" because of the similarities in architecture, art collections and milieu.

Louisiana, founded in 1958, is situated in the beautiful nature of Humlebaek in the northern parts of Zealand, Denmark. At Louisiana, built in eight stages, new and old is combined. The modern buildings, designed by the architects Jørgen Bo, Wilhelm Wohlert and Claus Wohlert, have been added to the villa built by Alexander Brun in 1855.

Louisiana is located on the coast and surrounded by a sculpture-park with basins and sculptures by e.g. Henry Moore, Alexander Calder and Joan Miró. The collection consists of a large amount of works of art by modern Danish artists, as well as of international modernists like Vasarely, Calder and Albers, and representatives of pop-art like Warhol and Lichtenstein. Twentyfour sculptures by Giacometti form a remarkable part of the collection.

In the beginning Louisiana concentrated on modern Danish art but since 1962 the museum has also arranged a number of exhibitions with objects from exotic cultures. Today the museum concentrates on international modern art and on contemporary art.

The Didrichsen Art Museum has loaned to the exhibition from Louisiana paintings and sculptures by following artists: Albers, Alechinsky, Appel, Chillida, Francis, Heerup, Hepworth, Jacobsen, Jorn, Kirkeby, Louis, Oldenburg, Richier and Tinguely.