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

21 DENMARK 8o (regular) assistant persons by 100 managing.persons, whence it fol- lows that the Danish industry is conducted mainly by handicraft; most of its products are hand-made. In accordance with this fact no small demands are made to the training of mechanics. Whilst the higher education is supported by the University (founded in 1480), the Academy of Fine Arts (founded, in i754)> Conserva- tory of music (founded in 1866), great Public libraries and excellent museums, the industrial education is provided for by the College of en- gineering (founded in 1824) and no less than 8y technical schools, spread all over the country; the largest of these schools is the Technical school of Copenhagen (established in 1843). These technical schools are volun- tary secondary schools, whereas, on the contrary, education in the board- schools is compulsory. Every child in Denmark is bound to go to school from its seventh till its thirteenth year. It follows naturally from what has been stated here that the Da- nish industry has been greatly affected, by the technical arts, though by the fine arts as well. At the close of last century the artists Wie de- welt (1731—1802), a sculptor, and Abildgaard (1742—1804), a painter, began trying to make art gain an influence upon indus- trial products; and in spite of the fearful economic calamities that befell Denmark at the beginning of our. century greatly' checking the develop- ment of the country, G. F. Hets ch (1788—1864), an architect, proudly displayed the same colors. A pupil of Percier, Lebas and Rondelet of Pa- ris he cherished the Empire style, as it’s called, and through his authority that style zuas for a long time predominant in Denmark. Other artists, more profound, were looking to true classic models; others still were turning to the so-called Northern Renaissance (the style of Christian IF); but the principal character of industrial art in Denmark remained for a long time quietness and restraint with a tendency towards the antique, as may be seen distinctly at the works of the goldsmith f. B. Dalhoff