The Danish artist Ejnar Nielsen grew up in Copenhagen in the late 1800s. As a young man, a trip to the village of Gjern, in Jutland, marked him profoundly. The village was impoverished, its inhabitants living on the fringe of society. There Nielsen acted as a bystander, painting scenes of disability and illness, of funeral pyres amid the Northern hills. These early works have been called a “medical record from Gjern,” but later on Nielsen was nicknamed “the painter of death.” This exhibition covers that dark period in Gjern. —Elena Clavarino