De Coninck House

De Coninck House
De Conincks Gård
General information
Location Copenhagen
Country Denmark
Coordinates 55°40′58.38″N 12°35′27.6″E / 55.6828833°N 12.591000°E / 55.6828833; 12.591000Coordinates: 55°40′58.38″N 12°35′27.6″E / 55.6828833°N 12.591000°E / 55.6828833; 12.591000
Completed 1797
Client Frédéric de Coninck
Design and construction
Architect Joseph-Jacques Ramée (attributed)

The De Coninck House (Danish: De Conincks Gård) is a historic property located at Store Kongensgade 72 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after Frédéric de Coninck for whom it was built in the 1790s.

History

The property was built in 1797 for etatsråd the merchant and shipowner Frédéric de Coninck. It is believed that the architect was Joseph-Jacques Ramée. [1]

The building was later acquired by the Barnekow family and the composer Christian Barnekow lived there around 1880. The painter Otto Bache lived on the first floor from 1904 to 1921. Royal ohotographer Leopold Albert lived in the building in the 1930s. The architect H. P. G. Koch undertook a restoration of the building in 1937.

Architecture

The courtyard

The building consists of two floors and a celler and is eight bays wide. Two side wings project from the rear side of the main wing on each their side of a narrow courtyard. The borthern side wing is eight bays long plus a two-bay rounded connection where it meets the main wing. The shorter side connects to a three-bay rear wing. The building was listed in 1918.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Store Kongensgade 72-72a". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 22 August 2016.
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