Danserindebrønden
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Danserindebrønden (dt. Dancer Fountain ) is located in the Danish city of Helsingør near a small port facility in Helsingør Havn . The fountain includes a bronze statue that the Danish sculptor Rudolph Tegner created on the order of the brewer Carl Jacobsen . The group of statues placed at the edge of the fountain shows three young, happily dancing women.
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, the brewer and art patron Carl Jacobsen longed to erect a monument for the Royal Danish Ballet , which depicts the three dancers Elna Jørgensen , Emilie Smith and Grethe Ditlevsen . The names of the three dancers are engraved on the edge of the fountain. In 1910 the three artists Rudolph Tegner, Edvard Eriksen and Carl Bonnesen were commissioned to work out a design, from which Tegner finally received the commission.
The statue was placed in the Kongens Have (Royal Garden) of Copenhagen's Rosenborg Castle on June 6, 1913 , and moved there two years later on the lawn at Sølvgade . The fountain basin was designed by the architect Hack Kampmann .
Dissatisfied with the location in Kongens Have , Tegner took the initiative in 1933 to move Danserindebrønden to Helsingør. At the corner of Kronborgvej and Allégade, the statue was assigned a place, surrounded by gardens created by the landscape architect GN Brandt. In 1941 the monument moved again when it was moved 25 meters further to its current location opposite today's Kulturværftet as part of an expansion of Helsingør Skibsværft .
literature
- Teresa Nielsen and Lulu Salto Stephensen: Rudolph Tegners Danserindebrønd . Ed .: Rudolph Tegners Museum. 1993, ISBN 87-982510-2-3 (Danish).
- Lars Bjørn Madsen: Monumental Helsingør . Nordisk Forlag, 1997, ISBN 87-88245-37-3 , pp. 24-27 (Danish).
Web links
- Danserindebrønden in Helsingør Leksikon (Danish)
Coordinates: 56 ° 2 ′ 19.3 ″ N , 12 ° 36 ′ 44.8 ″ E