Kunstforeningen

They were Johan Christian Fick, professors J. L. Lund, C. W. Eckersberg and G. F. Hetsch from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the landscape painter J. P. Møller, the art historian Niels Laurits Høyen and Just Mathias Thiele, the secretary of the academy.

The purpose was to broaden the knowledge of art and to bridge the gap between the elite and a wider public.

Later the society's activities relocated several more times before finding their current base at Gammel Strand in 1952.

One of the annual exhibitions is of works by the year's graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

[3] The building has a second entrance at the rear, at Læderstræde 15, which is recommended for those in wheelchairs or with prams since it has an elevator providing direct access to all floors.

Five storied attached brick dwelling on the street. Elaborate ornamentation such as a large gable with curved roof, cornices and stone work around the rounded arch entrance.
48 Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, by Philip de Lange (1750)