Civiletatens Materialgård

Together with the adjacent Fæstningens Materialgård, its military counterpart, and the Royal Horse Guards Barracks, it forms a cluster of low, yellow-washed buildings alongside Frederiksholm Canal.

The ring riding columns and marble balls in Rosenborg Castle Gardens are examples of artifacts at some point stored at Civiletatens Materialgård.

His works executed in the building included his two statues "Bravery" and "Civic Virtue" for the Liberty Column (Frihedsstøtten) at the site as well as Tordenskjold's tomb for Church of Holmen.

He had just returned to Copenhagen after nine years in Rome, where he had worked for Bertel Thorvaldsen, and assisted by Georg Hilker and Constantin Hansen he decorated his new home, both interiors and furnishings, in Pompeian Styles.

After Vilhelm Bissen's death in 1913, the sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen moved in, together with her husband, the composer Carl Nielsen.

Back in 1908, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen had been commissioned to create the equestrian statue of King Christian IX for Christiansborg's riding grounds on the opposite side of the canal.

Today the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Sculptury is based in the main building.