00196 Rome
Italy
The Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum houses the works of the sculptor and painter Hendrik Christian Andersen.
Anderson was born in Bergen in Norway in 1872, but became a naturalized American after immigrating as a child to the U.S. He settled permanently in Rome, where he lived for over forty years. On his death in 1940, he bequeathed his study-home in via Mancini and all its contents to the Italian State: works, furnishings, archive papers, photographic material, books.
The Museum opened in 1999, on the fifty-ninth anniversary of the artist’s death, under the protection of the Superintendency of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. Today the museum falls within the competence of the enhancement and protection of the Directorate of State Museums of the City of Rome (Ministry of Culture). The collection of works includes over two hundred large, medium and small sculptures in plaster and bronze, over two hundred paintings, and over three hundred graphic works.