Name Edvard Eriksen Role Sculptor | ||
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Resting place Vestre Cemetery, Copenhagen55°39′28″N 12°31′45″E / 55.65778°N 12.52917°E / 55.65778; 12.52917 Died January 12, 1959, Copenhagen, Denmark Education | ||
Copenhagen, Denmark - The Little Mermaid (2018)
Edvard Eriksen (10 March 1876 – 12 January 1959) was a Danish–Icelandic sculptor. He is best known as the creator of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen 1909–13.
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Biography
He apprenticed as a wood carver, after which he trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1894 and 1899. After marrying Eline Vilhelmine Møller in 1900, they had five children.
Among his other works are the allegorical statues "Grief, Memory and Love" made in 1908 in marble for the sarcophagus of Christian IX and Queen Louise in Roskilde Cathedral. Edvard Eriksen taught at the Royal Academy between 1908–19 and was a conservator at Thorvaldsen Museum 1930–53.
He travelled around Italy with his family learning to carve in marble and was made an honorary professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara and was created a knight in the Order of the Dannebrog in 1932.