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The 1901 mock-up. A monument featuring a lur blower on the new City Hall Square was first proposed by Lorenz Frølich in circa 1890. [1] Martin Nyrop, who had designed the new Copenhagen City Hall, adopted the idea and originally envisioned two columns flanking the entrance to the City Hall Square from Vesterbrogade, each topped by a Heimdallr figure with a gjallarhorn.
Ellen Price as the Little Mermaid, Royal Danish Ballet, 1909 Assembly of the Little Mermaid statue (Copenhagen, Langeline, 1913). The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the ballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue.
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The Statue of N. F. S, Grundtvig, situated in the central courtyard of Vartorv, close to the City Hall Square in central Copenhagen, Denmark, was created by Niels Skovgaard. It depicts N. F. S. Grundtvig knealing by the Spring of Life.
Image Title / individual commemorated Location Sculptor Created Installed Source Absalon: City Hall Square (Copenhagen City Hall: Vilhelm Bissen: 1901 Ref: Absalon: Højbro Plads
A tourist was booed after she climbed Copenhagen's iconic Little Mermaid statue on Saturday (9 September). The unnamed woman was filmed rubbing her nose on the historical landmark, which is ...
The statue of Ludvig Holberg by Theobald Stein, together with Herman Wilhelm Bissen's statue of Adam Oehlenschläger, flanks the main entrance to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was created by Stein in conjunction with the inauguration of Vilhelm Dahlerup's new theatre building in 1875.
Mermaids and other mer-people are recurring figures in traditional Danish lore. The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's popular story "The Little Mermaid" (the basis of the Disney animated film) inspired the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, which has been deemed not only a popular tourist attraction but also a symbol of the country itself.