Malergården

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Malergården is a historic house museum in Plejerup, Odsherred Municipality, Denmark. The house was built in 1932–1934 for painter Sigurd Swane and his wife Agnete Swane, who designed it herself.

Sigurd Swane was born in Frederiksberg and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art from 1899 to 1903, making his official debut at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1903. In the early 1930s the Swanes moved to the countryside and the present building was completed in 1934. Writer Valdemar Rørdam lived with them at Malergården from 1939 to 1946. Agnete Swane died in 1950, and Sigurd Swane lived there until his death in 1974. Their three children kept the property after his death.

Their daughter Gerda Swane published the book Swanerne på Malergården in 1999, and in 2004 she donated Malergården to the Odsherred Museum. Henrik Swane, Gerda’s brother, lived in the east wing until his death in 2011.