Decoration

The project was initiated in 1994, when Birgitte Kann Rasmussen, formerly school principal at Nexø School took up the same position at Gentofte School. In the course of the work, Poul Gernes died. Aase continued, and the final colour schemes were added in 2006. 

Here at Gentofte School was one of their principal works: The monumental main staircase which climbed three floors next to the large open hall. Here, stairs, railings, coloured linoleum, panels and radiators were composed in a colour symphony that lifted art history to a higher dimension. It didn’t matter where you turned -- everywhere were interesting new angles and details. It was insanely handsome. 

But Gernes’ colours divide the waters. When I visited, the staff was not wild about them. “It is unbearable with all those colours,” they said. In 2016 we learned that the whole thing had been painted over. A great site-specific work in Danish art has ceased to exist.