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Statues in Copenhagen (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Copenhagen" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Statues in Copenhagen (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Outdoor sculptures in Copenhagen" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Image Title / individual commemorated Location Sculptor Created Installed Source Peter Christian Abildgaard: UCPH Frederiksberg Campus: August Hassel
Statues of women in Copenhagen (9 P) Pages in category "Statues in Copenhagen" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Talking Statues is a project that was created in 2013 by documentary filmmaker David Peter Fox, [1] who is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired by the book, Sculptures in Copenhagen by Jens Peters Munk , Fox went on to provide a history and backstory for the figures represented by the statues.
Copenhagen's name (København in Danish), reflects its origin as a harbour and a place of commerce.The original designation in Old Norse, from which Danish descends, was Kaupmannahǫfn [ˈkɔupˌmɑnːɑˌhɔvn] (cf. modern Icelandic: Kaupmannahöfn [ˈkʰœipˌmanːaˌhœpn̥], Faroese: Keypmannahavn [ˈtʃʰɛʰpmanːaˌhavn]), meaning 'merchants' harbour'.
On 8 March 1888 Carl Jacobsen donated his collection to the Danish State and the City of Copenhagen on condition that they provided a suitable building for its exhibition. Copenhagen's old fortifications had recently been abandoned and a site was chosen on a ravelin outside Holcks Bastion in the city's Western Rampart , just south of the Tivoli ...
The new fortifications relied on the existing, medieval fortifications of the city but the fortified area was extended and a defensive ring around the city completed particularly with new edifices facing the sea. The ring fortification consisted of four bastioned ramparts and an annexed citadel as well as various outworks.