Gottlieb Bindesbøll

Most known for his design of Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, he was a key figure in the stylistic shift in Danish architecture from late classicism to Historicism.

With the large gold medal came a travel scholarship and in 1834 Bindesbøll set out on a four-year journey to Rome, visiting Berlin, Dresden and Munich on the way.

Bindensbøll's designs ultimately stood out from other architects' competing for the commission to transform the Royal Carriage Depot and Theatre Scenery Painting Building into a museum dedicated to Thorvaldsen.

He emulated the construction of the Erechtheion and the Pantheon as freestanding buildings designed to be seen from a diagonal point of view, released from traditional urban plan of closed street courses.

This new, free perception of space served as a guiding principle for the cities and buildings of the future (Lange, Bente, and Jens Lindhe.

A company of Danish artists in Rome , painted by Constantin Hansen . Bindesbøll is lying on the floor with a fez he often wore after his visit to Constantinople together with Martinus Rørbye who is seen behind him as number two from the left. Also appearing in the picture are the painter himself, Marstrand , Küchler , Blunck and Jørgen Sonne
Hobro Church, 1852