date_of_official_opening bornholm art museum
The Bornholm Art Museum ( Bornholms Kunstmuseum ) is situated on the Danish island of Bornholm , above the Sanctuary Rocks ( Helligdomsklipperne ) about 6 kilometres north - west of Gudhjem . The building was constructed in 1993 and enlarged in 2003 . The museum ' s permanent collection consists principally of paintings by artists with connections to Bornholm from the early 19th century to the present day . Special attention is given to the Bornholm school of painters which emerged at the beginning of the last century when a number of modernists , attracted to picturesque Bornholm and the tiny island of Christiansø , painted landscapes and local nature . The permanent exhibition includes works by Edvard Weie , Karl Isakson , Olaf Rude , Kræsten Iversen , Niels Lergaard and Oluf Høst . In addition , numerous paintings and works of sculpture present a rich picture of artistic life on Bornholm . Covering an area of some 4 , 000 square meters , the museum itself is an impressive architectural achievement . Designed by architects Johan Fogh and Per Følner , it is divided into three levels as the ground the slopes down towards the sea . The galleries are situated on either side of a kind of street where water trickles down from the age - old Helligdomskilde healing spring . Gudhjem is a small town and fishing port on the northern coast of the Baltic island of Bornholm , Denmark . Its population is 715 ( 1 January ___MASK14___ ). Kristen " Kræsten " Iversen ( ___MASK41___  1955 ) was a Danish artist who is remembered both for his paintings and his painted glass windows . The Bornholm school of painters started to take shape towards the beginning of the 20th century on the Danish island of Bornholm when a number of artists developed a distinctive style of classic modernism , inspired by the island ' s unique landscapes and light . Karl Isakson and Edvard Weie were among the first to paint the island ' s constantly changing natural beauty , using pure , subdued colour to produce work in new aesthetic directions . They were soon joined by other Danish artists including Niels Lergaard , Kræsten Iversen and Oluf Høst . They lived mainly in the picturesque little ports of Gudhjem and Svaneke on the northern coast , adventuring at times over to the small island of Christiansø where they found further seclusion and inspiration . Viggo Thorvald Edvard Weie ( 18 November ___MASK56___ , Copenhagen - 9 April ___MASK25___ , Frederiksberg ) was a Danish Modernist painter . Oluf Høst ( ___MASK30___  1966 ) was a Danish Expressionist painter , the only member of the Bornholm school who was a native Bornholmer . Although he studied in Copenhagen , he returned to the Danish island of Bornholm in 1929 where he remained with his family for the rest of his life . Bognemark , a little farmhouse near Gudhjem , was one of Høst ' s favourite motifs . From 1935 on , he painted the farm some 200 times under varying conditions at different times of the year , often reflecting his particular mood at the time . His home in Gudhjem , built from two fishermen ' s cottages with a rocky garden in the rear , is named " Norresân " after the nearby harbour , Nørresand Havn , where he painted many of his works . Niels Lergaard ( ___MASK31___  1982 ) 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 . On returning to Denmark he studied and later taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts , Copenhagen ( 1917  20 ).