Zaha Hadid and the Impressionists

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Ordrupgaard is a turn of the century residence and museum containing an extensive collection of French Impressionist painting from a Danish insurance guy. This place is now on the Architourist's map because of a new addition by Zaha Hadid. Also, there is a house next door that was the home of modern furniture designer/architect Finn Juhl. Link to Finn Juhl here. Zaha Hadid's extension houses a really really nice exhibition of Finn Juhl's drawings and furniture that works well in the quirky-shaped gallery spaces. The Monet's, Cézanne's and Renoir's however, hang in another area of Hadid's addition and the funky sharp angles of the spaces don't work very well. In some areas the tight corners were less than 90 degrees and the paintings were almost on display for each other rather than for me. Ironically the spaces that are really really nice in the Hadid museum are the ones that don't have any art in them. The top picture shows the beautiful cafe space and surrounding landscape. The bottom left image shows one of the picture galleries in the old residence, the one on the right shows the addition.