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Clergymen and christian philosophers

by jenschristiantop.com 4th June 2025 in Architecture, Art, Culture Scapes, History, The church0 commentstags: Copenhagen

Statues of clergymen and christian philosophers/poets around The Marble Church, Copenhagen in the spring of 2025.

Erik Hansen – a dark painter

by jenschristiantop.com 2nd February 2022 in Art0 comments

Erik Hansen “Erik Hansen – Esbjergs mørkemaler” (Erik Hansen – a dark painter) was published January 29th 2022 in Janusbygningen in Tistrup, Denmark. It´s a book I have written about the art and life of expressionist painter Erik Hansen (1914-1970). Although Erik Hansen was an original artist from a bygone era, I believe that his life and art, as described in the book, has such universal features, that many artists today will be able to reflect in it. Publisher The publisher is HRYMFAXE, and the book is for sale from JANUS – Vestjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tistrup, Denmark. Telephone +45 75 29 98 25. More books René Fievé – an artist across

Experimente

by jenschristiantop.com 20th September 2021 in Art, Uncategorized0 comments

Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen has on their website posted photographs of their works for download and free use. For an exhibition titled EXPERIMENTE (September 13 to October 3) in Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel I have used some of those downloads.

Those were the days

by jenschristiantop.com 11th February 2021 in History0 comments

Phone booth, Esbjerg 1973.

Balconies

by jenschristiantop.com 21st January 2021 in Architecture0 comments

Bjarke Ingels Group has designed three residential towers covered by balconies all over the surface. From a distance it makes the buildings look like succulents.

Different attitudes

by jenschristiantop.com 1st January 2021 in Uncategorized0 comments

Different attitudes reading daily newspaper, Vestkysten, Esbjerg 1973.

René Fievé – en kunstner på tværs

by jenschristiantop.com 13th April 2019 in Culture Scapes1 comments

“René Fievé – en kunstner på tværs” (René Fievé – an artist across) was published April 6th 2019 in Janusbygningen in Tistrup, Denmark. It´s a book I have written about the art and life of my old friend Danish graphic artist and painter René Fievé (1947-2010). The publisher is HRYMFAXE, and the book is for sale from JANUS – Vestjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tistrup, Denmark. Telephone +45 75 29 98 25.

Culturescapes December 2017

by jenschristiantop.com 3rd December 2017 in Uncategorized0 comments

A collection of culturescapes December 2017.

University campus

by jenschristiantop.com 11th July 2017 in Architecture0 comments

Henning Larsen Architects has designed this university campus building – erected 2014 in Kolding, Denmark.

Cinematographer

by jenschristiantop.com 9th April 2017 in Film0 comments

Swedish cinematographer Dan Holmberg shooting a scene for “Under Heaven and Water” (“Under Himmel og Vand”) june 2001 at Dybe, Lemvig.

Baptistery

by jenschristiantop.com 5th April 2017 in Art, The church0 comments

The octagonal baptistery in Hjerting Church is designed by danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen. Lit bulbs in the ceiling are reflected in the surface.

Water closets

by jenschristiantop.com 14th March 2017 in Uncategorized0 comments

This row of discarded water closets was seen in the village Fåborg, Varde, Denmark. They spelled: Congratulations on the 30 years!

Dutch people

by jenschristiantop.com 17th January 2017 in Culture Scapes0 comments

In April 1972 I used my MC Rokkor 135 mm, 1:3.5 to capture this image with dutch people in Muntplein, Amsterdam. In those days Johan Cruyff played football at the local football club Ajax Amsterdam.

Poetry in motion

by jenschristiantop.com 11th January 2017 in Art0 comments

Preparing an art exhibition in Tistrup, Varde, Denmark.

In the USSR

by jenschristiantop.com 21st December 2016 in Culture Scapes0 comments

In the summer 1971 I joined a group travel to Moscow and Leningrad – now Sct. Petersburg. The sidewalks of both cities were often full of pedestrians. This slide is taken a late afternoon in Alexander Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad. The slope leads to an underpass below Sadovaya Street, and the people in the picture are citizens of the USSR.

Grandma in Frederiksberg

by jenschristiantop.com 13th December 2016 in Culture Scapes0 comments

Some years ago I found this 3 inch high picture in one of my grandma´s photo albums. The text was: Julie Jørgensen, November 1913. Usually she had written the location. Maybe she even did not know it herself? In November 1913 she was in training as a nurse at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen – then a new hospital for all the population of Denmark. I wondered where the picture was taken. If it was in Copenhagen, I found the atmosphere to be Strandvejen, Hellerup. It was not – so I thought, that it could be hard to find out, and that it would take too much time to solve the problem. So I gave up. Yesterday i came across the picture again, and I asked my intuition about the location. I saw an atmosphere of Gl. Kongevej, Frederiksberg. What about going through Gl. Kongevej by help of Google Street View? I did – and bingo! What a triumph! The building in the background is still existing at the corner of Gammel Kongevej and H.C. Ørsteds Vej. The signs are not the same, and the windows have become dark, but the building is just the same.

Householders

by jenschristiantop.com 7th December 2016 in Architecture, Culture Scapes, Humor0 comments

Two strong and naked men are holding the corner of a tenement house in Fredericia, Denmark. The scene is from 1997, and the building was erected in 1905.

Colonnade

by jenschristiantop.com 2nd December 2016 in Architecture, Culture Scapes0 comments

As an alternative and opposition to a local plan from 1988 for a new national football stadium in Copenhagen, where the main idea was to turn the stadium 90 degrees, three guys – Palle Bondrup, Albin P. Nielsen and myself – created and proposed a model for a new stadium, that was not turned the 90 degrees. The reason for turning the stadium was, that the boulevard Øster Allé was too close to the stadium. We thought, that it might be possible to build a tribune with spectator seats above Øster Allé. The only way to prove that it could be done, was to create a model – in this case a scale 1:200 model. The Polaroid photo shows how the alternative plan creates a tunnel and colonnade at Øster Allé. Our main reason not to turn the stadium was, that a 90 degree turn of the stadium would come too close to Lægeforeningens Boliger – a protected residential construction from 1854 – and shade the buildings and the outdoor areas from the sun. Our alternative was of course not accepted. In 1992 a stadium – turned 90 degrees – was inaugurated with a football match between the newly crowned European champions, Denmark and the reigning world […]

Retrieving dog

by jenschristiantop.com 1st December 2016 in Animals0 comments

In 1997 the golden retriever Vesterland´s Wanda brought me a pheasant, while I exposed a film in seconds.

The Wall

by jenschristiantop.com 15th November 2016 in Culture Scapes0 comments

The Berlin Wall behind Reichstag Building, West Berlin 1978.