Attendants / Keepers at the Kunstkammer Among the lower-ranking officials we meet (from 1650 to 54) the Attendant, sailmaker Christopher Proph, followed (1656-61) by the mechanic and Court architect Nicolai Gyntelberg (1626-61), and Jacob Jensen Nordmand (ca.1616-95), the Royal master-turner and -armourer. According to his own testimony Nordmand 'attended the Kunstkammer' for a year and a half after the death of Gyntelberg, and he is named later in two documents from 1662 and 1667 as 'Keeper of the Kunstkammer'. The Artist to the Royal Court Karel van Mander III's association with the Kunstkammer in the 1660s had already been confirmed by an Italian visitor to Copenhagen in 1664, who reports that 'Il custode, Carl Vanmander' showed him around the Kunstkammer. In 1662 the Holsteiner Bendix Grodtschilling the Elder (ca.1620-90) was appointed Master-turner to the Royal Court, the starting-point for a long career in the service of the Danish kings, first in the Lathe-room and then later as Keeper of the Kunstkammer. From the mid-1670s he played a central role, and was responsible for the transfer of the collection from the Castle of Copenhagen to the new building Vignette from Museum Regium 1696 To previous page Curators/Superintendents at the Kunstkammer