The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

I60 DENMARK « State and the city of Copenhagen, and has greatly contri- buted to give the industrial youth of this country an improved technical education. In its large and beautifully situated build- ing (see p. 159) it now gathers about 2000 pupils mostly in evening classes, but also in a large day-school with special classes for engineers and mechanics engaged in the building trade, to say nothing of its special schools for painters and decorators, and metal workers, and its school for art industry. It was for the benefit of industry generally that the In- dustrial Union worked; but from 1883, when the director of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory, Mr. Philip Schou, tit. councellor of state, became the president of the Union, it has laid special stress on the development of a Danish art industry. From the beginning of 1885 it has published, besides its monthly periodical to its members, a richly illustrated periodical »Tidsskrift for Kunstindustri« (Magazine for Art Industry)x), and when, at the same time, it gave the impulse to the holding of a great Northern Art, Industrial and Agricultural Exposition in 1888, the year in which the Union was able to celebrate its jubilee of fifty years’ existence, care was taken that the Exposition contain- ed select collections of art industry from the largest Euro- pean countries. This exposition, arranged in the best harmony with art and agriculture, thus became a link in the endeavors of the Union to promote art industry besides benefiting the general development of industry. What was aimed at was the creation of a Danish art in- dustry, i. e., an art industry conserving all that is charac- *) A copy of this magazine is exhibited in the Danish court in the Manufactures Building (see above p. 67).