Bodil Neergaard

Ellen Bodil Neergaard née Hartmann (10 February 1867 – 18 May 1959) was a Danish philanthropist and patron of the arts. She is remembered for her many charitable activities as well as for her life in Fuglsang Manor on the island of Lolland. Together with her husband, she hosted every summer prominent artists and musicians. Many of the leading Scandinavian musicians of the day also came to stay in the house. Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 4 in F major was first performed privately in August 1906. August Winding, Asger Hamerik, C. F. Horneman, Franz Nerich and Johan Svul Hammerich were other musicians who regularly visited Fuglesang. The house was also visited by Julius Röntgen, a pianist and violist from the Netherlands, who often brought his wife Amanda Maier and his six musical sons as his second wife (and after her decease), Abrahamina des Amie van der Am der van der Hoeven, and Julius Hntgen’s daughter-in-law.