Post by Ella The Oresundstag train serves both sides of the border and the train station one metro stop from our apartment in Copenhagen. All just too easy. We had downloaded the Skånetrafiken app (transportation for all of southern Sweden and also serves the Denmark/Swedish border). We purchased the train ticket to Malmo in the…
Month: May 2023
Danish modern
Post by Grubb. When I grew up in Chicago in the early fifties my parents outfitted our apartment with Danish modern furniture. Spare two piece curved blond wood chairs held together by tubular steel, kidney shaped blond wood coffee tables, a long canvas stretched lounge chair that rocked on wooden runners, and a simple easy chair…
Art against advertising
Post by Grubb. As we were walking to the Danish Design Museum (after our expedition to see the giants) we passed an art gallery with strong feelings towards corporate advertising.
Land of the hidden giants
Post by Ella and Grubb. We signed up for an AirBnB “experience” today to explore the giants. The artist, Thomas Dambo built 6 giants out of recycled wood, hidden by forests, lakes, and hilltops in selected places to bring the art outside the walls of the museums and into nature in the West of Copenhagen. …
A moment of reflection
Post by Ella. Today marks 3 years since my father, Joe Sitkin, died. He was 100-1/2 and lived a rich life. Rich in family and friends. Dad had an endless curiosity about everything. My parents were travelers taking every opportunity once we kids were grown. They biked through China in the 70’s, tooled around Europe with…
In the Garden of Graveyard Dreams
Post by Grubb. For a moment I thought I had come across Olaf Oesterplunk’s gravestone.
Danish eclectic cemeteries
Post by Ella. After our expedition to the Louisiana Museum of Art, we thought we’d explore one of the “bros”. There are several neighborhoods around Copenhagen with names that end in “bro”. Grubb arbitrarily picked Norrebro and we hopped on the metro and popped up at a station in the middle of the area. Just…
If you’ve had three wives named Louise
Post by Grubb. And you’re Alexander Brun, you name the museum you’re having built The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is considered to be another Danish architectural landmark. From the outside at the small courtyard entrance, the museum looks like a provincial French farmhouse recently renovated by a rock star…
Louisiana bound
Post by Ella. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art that is. Located in the town of Humlebaek, 37 km north of Copenhagen. We took a regional train up the coast (that would be the east coast of Denmark). If you look at a map, you’ll see that Denmark and Sweden are separated by the Øresund Sound. In…
Spacious apartment, Østerbro area of Copenhagen
Address: Murmanskgade 15. Nicely appointed, Danish-sparse, modern two bedroom apartment overlooking the water. It look a lot of searching to find this reasonably priced apartment in Copenhagen. Everything is quite expensive. We are about a 25 minute metro ride from the center of the city. The apartment is quiet. Great soundproofing. We are on the…
Little, but not alone
Post by Grubb. Our last trek of this cold and windy day took us out to Langelinie Promenade where the statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid is perched on a rock by the water of a large inlet. The closer we got to the water, the more the wind tried to blow us back to…
What would a museum do without Matisse?
Post by Grubb. Touring Copenhagen’s National Gallery took me through century after century of European painting and there was nothing wrong with that especially when I ran across an unexpected Hieronymous Bosch. But there’s only so much appreciation I can muster for the allegorical and royal before I want to explode it all in modern smithereens. Matisse…
Carl Bloc?
Post by Grubb. Lauded by the Danish in the later part of the 19th century when he was alive, Bloch’s reputation tanked when modernism hit the scene. His emotionally charged depictions of Christ and Prometheus didn’t prefigure any of the new 20th century ‘isms and seemed hopelessly out of date. But now there is an entire exhibit…
Treading water underground
Post by Ella. Can I just say, it was a cold, blustery day. Temperature hovered around 45 with wind chill taking it down to 38. Typical Danish spring. For me, all layers on board (windbreaker, light down jacket, light sweatshirt, shirt, Tshirt) plus a knit cap. Today, among other destinations, the Cisternerne. Two metros, one…
Choppy waters
Post by Grubb. I looked out the window this morning and didn’t need a weather report to know the wind was up. No bathers today.