Grønningen is a Danish artists

Art of Denmark

Danish art goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot. Art from modern Denmark forms part of the art of the Nordic Bronze Age, and then Norse and Viking art...

 cooperative whose members arrange exhibitions and similar events. Founded in 1915, it is one of the oldest and most important groupings of its kind and currently has 54 members. It is named after the street in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 where the first art exhibition was held.

Initially, it brought together artists interested in radical and experimental art who had been members of Den frie Udstilling (The Free Exhibition). Most prominent in the early years were artists such as Harald Giersing

Harald Giersing

Harald Giersing , a Danish painter, was instrumental in developing the classic modernism movement in Denmark around 1910-1920...

, Sigurd Swane

Sigurd Swane

Sigurd Swane was a Danish painter and writer. He studied in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art....

, Olaf Rude

Olaf Rude

Olaf Rude was a Danish painter who was born in Estonia. As a child, he moved with his family to Frejlev on the island of Lolland. He is remembered in particular for his paintings of oak trees at Skejten on Lolland, two of which can be seen at Christiansborg.In 1905, he studied at the Copenhagen...

, William Scharff, Fritz Syberg

Fritz Syberg

Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Syberg, generally known as Fritz Syberg, was a Danish painter and illustrator, one of the reactionary Fynboerne or "Funen Painters" group living and working on the island of Funen.-Biography:Syberg, from a poor background in Fåborg, first served a house...

 and Johannes Larsen

Johannes Larsen

Johannes Larsen was a Danish nature painter.-Biography:Born in Kerteminde on Funen, Larsen studied art at the Free School in Copenhagen under Kristian Zahrtmann in the 1880s. There he met other painters from Funen, notably Fritz Syberg and Peter Hansen, both from the southern port of Faaborg, and...

. They were soon joined by Vilhelm Lundstrøm

Vilhelm Lundstrøm

Vilhelm Lundstrøm was one of Denmark's most successful modernist painters. It was he who introduced French cubism to Denmark.He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art where he studied under Rostrup Böyesen....

, Svend Johansen, Axel Salto, Jens Søndergaard

Jens Søndergaard

Jens Søndergaard was a Danish expressionist painter. He specialised in strongly coloured landscapes depicting his feelings for the power of nature and the sea. Søndergaard won both national and international acclaim.-Biography:...

, Niels Lergaard

Niels Lergaard

Niels Lergaard was a Danish painter. After training as a house painter, he spent a few years in Norway, where he became interested in Norwegian landscape painting...

, Erik Hoppe

Erik Hoppe

Erik Hoppe was a Danish painter who is remembered for his paintings from the Copenhagen area, especially those with young ladies in the park at Valby....

, Christine Swane

Christine Swane

Christine Swane née Christine Larsen was a Danish painter who first associated with the Funen Painters before developing her own increasingly Cubist style.-Biography:...

, Astrid Noack and Gottfred Eickhoff. Later came Erik Werner, Eiler Krag, Ib Spang Olsen, Lars Bo

Lars Bo

Lars Bo was a Danish artist and writer. He is known for his graphic works with surrealistically inspired fantastic motifs. He was nicknamed "Wizard"....

 and Bo Bojesen. During the 1940s, abstract art

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

 was introduced by Richard Mortensen

Richard Mortensen

Richard Mortensen was a Danish painter.Mortensen studied between 1931 and 1932 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Influenced by the works of Wassily Kandinsky, he developed an abstract style...

 og Egill Jacobsen.

The annual exhibitions are now held in the Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen is the official exhibition gallery of the Royal Danish Academy of Art. The palatial residence was constructed in 1672–83 for Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, in the Baroque architectural idiom shared by Holland, England and Denmark.The dowager queen Charlotte Amalie...

and feature key foreign artists.