Death and the Mother
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Danish National Gallery |
Death and the Mother (
History
Hansen Jacobsen created the original plaster model in 1892, shortly after he had settled in Paris where he lived until 1901. His newly wedded wife Gabriela served as model for the mother crouching on the ground. The literary inspiration for the work was Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Story of a Mother. When the sculpture was exhibited at Charlottenborg in 1894, the catalogue contained a slightly modified version of the last sentence of the tale: "And she lowered her head into her lap. And Death took her child into the Unknown Lands".[1]
The model was first exhibited at the
Casts
After his return to Denmark in 1901, Hansen Jacobsen received a commission from Carl Jacobsen's Albertina Foundation for a bronze cast which was installed in front of Church of the Holy Ghost in Copenhagen. In 1966 it had to be moved because the ward found it "profoundly depressing" and it was instead placed outside St. Peter's Church.
Another cast was later placed outside Vejen Art Museum which had been opened to house his oeuvre.
Description
The portrayal of Death as the
See also
References
- ^ "Døden og Moderen" (in Danish). Vejen Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
- ^ "Niels Hansen Jacobsen (1861-1941), Motif from The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen,". Statens Museum for Kunst. Archived from the original on 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-05-27.