Harald Giersing had close ties to the early 20th-century artists’ colony in Faaborg on the Danish island of Funen. His portrait of the art historian Leo Swane in military uniform is an important and well-known piece in Danish art history. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation, Faaborg Museum can now add the painting to its collection.

A deeply personal painting by P. S. Krøyer now finds a permanent home at the Art Museums of Skagen. The painting of the artist’s young daughter hung in his own home in Skagen until his death. In private ownership since then, it was recently secured at auction with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation.

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark adds a beautiful video installation about migration, war and identity by Eva Koch to its collection. The installation, VILLAR, draws on the artist’s own family story but is equally a universal story about families torn apart and uprooted by war. The New Carlsberg Foundation supported the purchase.

Tal R moves effortless among different media and has recently moved into sculpture in the classical materials of bronze and plaster. With funding from the New Carlsberg Foundation, the disquieting bronze sculpture Headless Drummer Boy can now stagger into the permanent collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.