Hack Kampmann was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

. His parents were the priest Christian Peter Georg Kampmann and Johanne Marie Schmidt. He entered the Royal Academy of Arts School of Architecture and graduated in 1882, receiving the prestigious small gold medal.

Kampmann went on numerous study trips in Europe on several scholarships, and visited northern Italy, Greece and Sweden. He also attended the Beaux-Arts Academy in Paris and worked with professor Jacques Hermant

Jacques Hermant

Jacques-Rene Hermant was a French architect, one of the most renowned architects of fin-de-siècle Paris....

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On his return to Denmark he drew a series of private and public buildings in Denmark. Among his major works are the Provincial Archives (1890–91) in Viborg, Jutland; the Aarhus Theater (1898–1900); Marselisborg Palace

Marselisborg Palace

Marselisborg Palace, in Danish Marselisborg Slot, is a royal residence of the Danish Royal Family in Aarhus. It has been the summer residence of Queen Margrethe II since 1967....

, built 1899–1902 as a wedding gift from the people to Crown Prince Christian (later Christian X

Christian X of Denmark

Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and the only King of Iceland between 1918 and 1944....

); and the extension of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark...

 in Copenhagen.

Kampmann was the leading Danish proponent of the Danish national romantic style and, through his Police Headquarters in Copenhagen (1918–22), an initiator of 1920s Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...

. This last building was completed after his death in summer 1920 by his two sons and Aage Rafn. He is one of the most influential architects in Danish architectural history and also neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...

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