Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in Impressionist painters at a time when they were attacked and denigrated. The film takes us to Hansen's summer house on the outskirts of Copenhagen and takes us on a tour of the extraordinary exhibition at the Royal Academy in London dedicated to his collection.
Includes: Sunflowers, Young Picasso, Raphael Revealed, Hopper: An American Love Story, Cézanne: Portraits of a Life, Pissarro: Father of Impressionism, Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman, Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition, Tokyo Stories, Easter in Art, The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin, Frida Kahlo, Leonardo: The Works, Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait, Van Gogh & Japan, Degas: Passion for Perfection, David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts, Canaletto & the Art of Venice, Michelangelo: Love and Death, The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, I, Claude Monet, The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Renoir: Reviled and Revered, Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood, The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them, Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing, Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis, Matisse, Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London