The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

ART BUILDING 99 Exposition. It may be worth while to state that the tendency., now coming forward in France under the name of -»synthetism«., has gained several partisans in the youngest generation of Danish artists. It is a matter of course that Thorvaldsen, whose value and signi- ficance is renowned all over the world, has exercised the greatest in- fluence on Danish sculpture in the nineteenth century. The prominent and original sculptor, H. E. Freund (1786—1840) has given us, in a relief frieze of great size, a spirited illustration of the Destruction of the Gods of the North (»Ragnarok«). H. V. Bissen (1798—1868) was, for a long time, the assistant of Thorvaldsen in Rome, and has, later on, executed a great many monumental works in Denmark, amongst others the monument to victory at Fredericia, a realistic representation of a Danish soldier enthusiastically waving a beech bough; moreover a great many portrait statues and busts. His vjorks show a pure sense of the plastic, but are wanting in delicate living surface treatment. Contrary to these artists f. A. f er ich an (1816—1883) did not follow up the traditions of Thorvaldsen; but tried in his works to give a new conception of the antique or to give expression to strong emotions and melancholy feelings. It must be owned that none of the younger Danish sculptors have come up, in importance, to the level of these three masters, although Vilh. Bissen (b. 1836) proves himself, in all his works, to be an able artist of great taste, and Sa ab ye (b. 1823), amongst other works, has executed a good monument of H. C. Andersen and a fine statue of Susanna. Most of the monumental tasks have been intrusted to Stein (b. 1823). Hasselriis (b. 1844) has resided in Rome for the greatest part of his life. The same improvement which Krøyer and 7*