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

DENMARK 150 names have been added: Holberg and Øhlenschlæger, Grundt- vig and Kierkegaard, Rask and Madvig, to say nothing of the fact that Denmark has, in these latter days, spun a net of wires carrying its influence to the remotest parts of the world through the Great Northern Telegraph Company whose founder is the president of the Merchants’ Corporation of Copenhagen, Mr. C. F. Tietgen. It is Mr. Tietgen, too, who has mainly contributed to give Denmark what it possesses of the factory system. Among the men that may be named here we shall dwell upon a few belonging to the liberal arts. * * ❖ Who does not know Thorvaldsen? Who does not know the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen, the characteristi- cally fine building, filled with statue by the side of statue, bust of bust, everything the work of one man, of the sculptor who, from the moment he, in Rome 1803, had shaped his Jason till his death 1844 was the most celebrated artist of the world. It was the ancient art that the hand of Bertel- Thorvaldsen revived in classic beauty and serenity. As against the frivolity of last century his works stood in passionless beauty, entirely chaste; and their high ideality conquered the world. It is not a question of modern realism obliged to give both muscles and skin to the beautiful form; and the Olympic figures of Thorvaldsen stand opposed to the development of present time, but they make a captivating impression, being the results of a marvellous freshness and richness of production representing with the same genius the Greek world of Gods and a number of historic characters as