Karina Lykke Grand is a younger scientist and museum employee, who has sought to renew the research, as well as the dissemination of knowledge, regarding Danish art from the Golden Age. Within just a few years, she has managed to assert herself as a person of strong initiative and new ideas on a period in Danish art history, which has already been the subject of intense research. She has expressed her ideas, among other places, in the book `Dansk guldalder. Rejsebilleder´, from 2012, and by playing a major role in setting op the large exhibition GULD, which took place in 2013. Furthermore, she has taken the initiative to founding a new international journal, dealing with studies of art from the age of Romanticism. These are some of the reasons why Karina Lykke Grand is rewarded with the grant form Ole Haslund´s Art Foundation.

Along with the grant comes DKK. 40 000, which Karina Lykke Grand intends to spend on research travels, in connection with the founding of a new research project.

`This research project is based upon art historical and cultural historical collections found at museums throughout Northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, England, Scotland, Germany and Holland, so the money will be spend on trips to those countries´, Karina Lykke Grand says. She goes on to explain:

`The final objective of the research project is to establish what has made up the cultural identity of the countries selected, now and then. The project seeks to actualize this, as well as to provide new answers as to how we can expect our cultural identity to be shaped in the future, seen from a regional, a national and a European perspective, and how the collections found in the museums can contribute to this development´.

Facts regarding the foundation:

Ole Haslund´s Art Foundation was established by art dealer Ole Haslund in 1941, with the purpose of expressing recognition of the work of painters, sculptors, actors, artisans, museum personnel, conservators, art historians and antique dealers, through financial donations and other signs of appreciation.