Making a paint paste in the lab, 19th-century style. Mikkel Scharff Eckersberg, Købke, and their fellow painters likely didn’t interact with the beer. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts ...

Danish Golden Age painters had an unusual source for some supplies: breweries. The masters used the byproduct of beer brewing to prep their canvases so paint wouldn't seep through, new research found.

Danish Golden Age Painters Used Beer Leftovers to Prep Their Canvases Researchers are finding yeast and grain in the works of 19th-century artists in Denmark Teresa Nowakowski - Daily Correspondent ...

Beer breweries’ trash may have been Danish painters’ treasure. The base layer of several paintings created in Denmark in the mid-1800s contains remnants of cereal grains and brewer’s yeast ...

Danish painters in the 19th century had some special ingredients up their sleeves: They used materials from brewing beer to create their artwork, ...

The museum’s recently opened exhibition “Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in 19th Century Danish Art” provides a surprising — and surprisingly relevant — backstory for the unusual ...

The first picture you encounter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art” is Wilhelm Bendz’s cluttered, highly detailed ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has acquired one of the most significant 19th-century paintings in its history, a masterpiece by Danish Modernist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916).

Famous Danish painters may have gotten supplies from an unusual source: breweries. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search Mostly Clear icon. 52 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Danish painters in the 19th century may have turned to an unusual source for some of their supplies: breweries. Researchers examined paintings from the Danish Golden Age and ...