THE NEW AGE IN COPENHAGEN - GRUNDTIVIGS CHUCH
In the
northwest part of the city of Copenhagen, between Bispebjerg Cemetery and the
Bispebjerg Hospital grounds lies a community of homes from the center of which
is rising this modern structure, the New Church, one of the architectural
attractions of Europe and of Copenhagen. It is an appealing thing built of
tawny colored brick and has helped to prove that the new in architecture can be
beautiful. It was designed by the architect P.V. Jensen Klint.
Save in
Germany, Russia and the Scandinavian countries, the New Architecture seems to
be making very little progress. Little of it is seen in current America
skyscrapers and what has crept into our ecclesiastical architecture generally
looks out of place or freakish. Denmark has handled the new in architecture
differently. Danish buildings of the past have followed the late classic in
form and today this country is producing buildings suited to take their place
with those of the past as a witness Klint Grundtvigs Church.
Called the
“Venice of the North,” because the sea is such a big factor in the life of the
city, Copenhagen is also known as the “Paris of the North.” This is because of
its narrow, crooked lanes that exist side by side with its broad, modern boulevards
and richly ornamented buildings. Then, too, the whole city teems with gay life.
Most of its nearly half a million people are well dressed and go about with
smiling faces. There is an air of prosperity everywhere, for Copenhagen is a
metropolis without squalor and confusion.
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