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Jun 26, 1842 Died on 14 Jan 1923 (aged 80)
Danish museum founder
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About Johannes Hage
- Johannes Hage (1842 – 1923) was a Danish businessman who became a philanthropist and later founder of the Nivaagaard museum. He was the son of a brickworks director whose estate and complex at Nivaagaard he inherited in 1872.
- Under his direction the company prospered by supplying bricks to building projects in Copenhagen.
- With his wealth Hage subsidized the National Museum (Statens Museum for Kunst), but in 1908 decided to found his own art gallery, the Nivaagaards Malerisamling, with 150 paintings.
- He opened it to the public and in 1908 he made up a will in which he bequeathed the entire collection to the state, along with the museum building and a capital of 60,000 Danish marks for maintenance.
- In 1913 the later director and curator of the National Museum, Karl Madsen, wrote a catalog of his collection.
