Monument in Denmark to the fairy tale character flower. Denmark: in the places of Andersen's fairy-tale heroes

The bronze monument to Hans Christian Andersen in the Royal Garden of Copenhagen was made with public money collected in Denmark and abroad. The necessary capital, 27 thousand crowns, was easily collected in 1874. Difficulties began when choosing a sculptor.

After the end of the competition, G.Kh. Andersen was invited to approve the sketches and was disappointed with them.

After the end of the second competition, the mortally ill writer was visited by the sculptor August Saabye with his sketches, in which Andersen was reading surrounded by children. Andersen criticized this sketch as well. He wanted to be immortalized alone. The great storyteller was offended by the fact that he was classified as a children's writer. He said that he wrote exclusively for adults, but it turned out that children also liked some of his works.

After three competitions, the work was entrusted to the sculptor August Saabye. A. Saabye participated in the second and third competitions with different sketches.

The height of the sitting figure without a plinth is 210 cm. The pedestal is made of unpolished granite, the figure itself is bronze. Its composition is the same as that of the equestrian statue of King Frederik V in front of the Amalienborg palace complex.
On one side of the pedestal is a fragment from the tale of the Stork. On the other hand - a fragment from the fairy tale The Ugly Duckling.

The monument was opened on June 26, 1880 in the presence of the royal family and a large public. Five years after the death of Hans Christian Andersen.

For those who do not remember the tale of the Stork: http://andersen.com.ua/ru_aisty.html

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Small children sit in the pond until the stork takes them and takes them to mom and dad.

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The monument to G.H. Andersen, by the sculptor Henry Luckow-Nielsens, was installed on Andersen Boulevard, next to the City Hall in 1965. The writer's gaze is turned to the Tivoli amusement park.
The knees of the bronze sculpture are shining. :) Tourists love to be photographed on their knees at the world famous writer(his works have been translated into 125 languages).

In Copenhagen, today there are two monuments to the Danish writer and poet, the author of such world famous famous fairy tales for children and adults, like "The Princess and the Pea", "The King's New Dress", "The Ugly Duckling", "Shadow" to Hans Christian Andersen.
One of the monuments is made of bronze. The statue depicts Hans Christian seated on a pedestal. It is located in the garden of the Royal Palace of Rosenborg. According to contemporaries, Andersen loved to walk in this garden, sit on a bench, feed ducks and swans on the pond with bread. The sculptor Augusto Sobu worked on the project of the monument, having created it during the life of the writer. Initially, it was assumed that Andersen would be depicted with a book in his hands and there would be children around him. But the elderly Hans Christian rejected the project, saying that he could not read aloud if someone was sitting next to him. Even more, he did not like the idea of \u200b\u200bwith children, because among his fans he wanted to see not only them. It's no secret that Andersen considered himself a writer for adults, a playwright. The sculpture was installed in its place in 1880, 5 years after the death of the poet. The monument to Hans Christian Andersen depicts a storyteller looking up, a book in his left hand, and his right hand outstretched, while his fingers are outstretched.
The second monument is also seated. It was made by the sculptor Henri Lukov-Nielsen. A monument to Hans Christian Andersen was erected in Copenhagen in 1961 near the town hall building on the Town Hall Square. The poet faces the Tivoli Park. There is no high pedestal here, which allows any kid to climb onto the storyteller's knees. Because of this, his bronze legs are polished more than all other parts of the body. The increased activity of children and the right idea of the sculptor made this monument one of the most photographed in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen is truly a fabulous city. In it, even the names of streets and squares, houses and districts have fabulous names. In the new royal square, a mute witch was once saved from death by her brothers, who turned into swans. Here, the Marble Church, and Butchers Street, and Bakers Street, and Coal Miners Street - all these names sound like in a fairy tale.
Each capital has its own symbol. For London it's the Tower, for Paris it's the Eiffel Tower, for Rome it's the Colosseum. So, not a single Dane imagines his capital without a modest monument to the Little Mermaid, the heroine of Andersen's fairy tale.
The poet died on August 4, 1875 in Copenhagen, where he is buried next to his friend and enemy Sjoren Kirkegaard at the Assistant Cemetery. Monuments to Hans Christian Andersen honor the memory of the undoubtedly beloved writer of children and, of course, adults.

"In a big city, where there are so many houses and people that not everyone has enough space for at least a small garden, there lived two poor children ..." Remember? So begins the well-known fairy tale by Hans-Christian Andersen "The Snow Queen". After all the adventures, Kai and Gerda return home: "The bells rang out, and they recognized the bell towers of their hometown..." This city can be unmistakably defined - Copenhagen, the city of kings and merchants, canals and bell towers, evil trolls and good fairies, a fairy tale city. The capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on the island of Zeeland. The island lies in the strait that connects North and Baltic seas.

The bronze monument to Hans Christian Andersen in Copenhagen stands in the Royal Garden, against the backdrop of the graceful pink castle of Rosenborg. The storyteller looks thoughtfully into the distance, the book in his left hand, and the right one is stretched out as if for a blessing. The monument was erected in 1880, shortly after the death of the writer, at the place where the young Hans-Christian, who at one time was on the verge of poverty, sat for hours on a bench, ate a penny bun and admired the white swans swimming in the pond (and possibly saw miraculous transformation into the Ugly Duckling Swan).

Another Copenhagen Andersen is not so elevated, on the contrary, it is accessible: on the boulevard of his name, near the town hall square, on a par with pedestrians, he looks at the Tivoli amusement park. The Danes consider their capital the city of the Great Storyteller. Andersen considered the day of his arrival from his native Odense to Copenhagen - September 6, 1819 - the most important in his life and celebrated along with his birthday.
It is difficult to imagine a happier writer's fate. He published his first book at the age of seventeen, from his youth he was surrounded by admirers and patrons, became a world celebrity long before forty, from the age of thirty he lived only on literary earnings and scholarships, was friends with great writers, was treated kindly and repeatedly awarded by monarchs. Echoes - in fairy tales and stories: “The royal family rides in a boat through narrow channels. The old king steered the wheel himself, the queen sat next to him, and both affably answered the bows of their subjects, without disassembling the estates and ranks ”(“ The Key to the Gates ”). And - with great Andersen's humor: “The ladies-in-waiting jumped and clapped their hands. “We know who has sweet soup and pancakes today! We know who has porridge and pork cutlets!” “Yes, but keep your mouth shut, I’m an emperor’s daughter!” ("Swineherd").
At thirty-four, he wrote: “My name is beginning to shine, and this is the only thing I live for ...” He was forty-three when the thirty-eight volume collection of his works was published in Germany - by that time he was already world famous came true.
True, they laughed at the national celebrity, especially at the amusing appearance: a long nose, incredible thinness, huge feet, disproportionate hands. They say that Andersen did not like to walk among the crowd, so he became almost the only Copenhagener who did not like the 1843-m and now world-famous amusement park, Disneyland of the 19th century. To this day, Danish provincials often come not so much to Copenhagen as to Tivoli to take a walk in the park, located directly opposite the station, across the street, to have fun and have fun.
In general, the spirit of fun reigns in Copenhagen. On Strøget - the longest pedestrian street on the continent - they flirt, dance, sing and sit in clusters around the fountains. From the bustling town hall square, Strøget stretches to the open space in front of Christianborg Palace, culminating in the spacious New Royal Square overlooking the Pyhaven harbor area. This path can be traced by Andersen's fairy tale "Galoshes of Happiness", all the names have remained the same. Remember? “It was in Copenhagen, on East Street, not far from the New Royal Square ...” Andersen’s first book that became popular was the story “Walking from the Holm Canal to Amager Island”, based on the Copenhagen topography. There is now an airport on the island of Amager and, as before, the old fishing village of Dragör, where it is full of Swedes: exhausted by the anti-alcohol struggle in their homeland, they come by ferry from Malmö for cheap drinks, fortunately through the Sound - half an hour and seven dollars round trip .

Andersen knew the city thoroughly and, judging by close attention, he loved it like he did the country: his poem "Denmark, my homeland" is still taught by heart in schools. In Copenhagen, traces of the heroes of Anderson's fairy tales are everywhere. Here is the palace ensemble of Amalienborg - the official residence of the Danish monarchs for the past two hundred years. It was built in a short time (1749-1755) according to the design of the architect N. Eigtved. Four identical palaces are located opposite each other on an octagonal square. I wonder in which of these four palaces two swindlers wove day and night the material for the new dress of the king?
An elegant equestrian monument to King Frederick V rises in the center of the square. Every noon, a company of the Life Guards in ancient uniform arranges a solemn changing of the guard according to the established ritual. The soldiers are wearing fur hats, their first samples were presented by the Russian Emperor Alexander III to his Danish father-in-law. Amalienborg usually hosts the ceremony of presenting credentials to the Queen for foreign ambassadors.
In the old days, the square was used not only for parades, but also for public executions. So, once a young witch sentenced to be burned at the stake was brought there. “Suddenly, eleven white swans flew in, sat around her along the edges of the wagon and flapped their mighty wings ...” Another time a large gallows was built, on which a soldier, the owner of a magic flint, was to be hung ...
Another famous place in the Danish capital is the New Royal Square, one of the largest in Copenhagen. It has thirteen streets. There are many monuments of architecture, culture and art here: the Royal Opera and Ballet Theater - the main national stage of the country, the fashionable Angleder Hotel, the large expensive Du Nord store, the Charlottenborg Palace - the former royal residence, now the Academy of Arts with exhibition halls. It was through this square that the famous naked king marched!
And the princess, who was later put a pea under her feather beds, one rainy evening knocked on the gates of Rosenborg Palace - the only palace of the era of King Christian IV (1577-1648), which has remained unchanged since the completion of construction in 1633. Now the richest collection of jewels and ornaments of the Danish royal family, a collection of royal porcelain and silver are exhibited here. One of Andersen's favorite fairy tales is "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". Here the street boys put the soldier in a paper boat and let it go through the gutter. "The boat skidded onto a wide bridge ... At that moment a large water rat jumped out from under the bridge..." We can figure out this bridge: Stormbro or Stormy, perhaps the darkest in Copenhagen. The passages between its pillars are so narrow that tourist boats, sailing under the bridge on the very slow speed, still almost touching its walls. In one of the supports, there is also a hole in the gutter. The rat, the self-proclaimed customs controller, did not manage to profit from the tin soldier: immediately after the bridge in the canal, he was swallowed by a large fish. But the fish did not swim for long with a tin soldier in its belly: a few minutes later it was hooked and immediately ended up in the fish market, which still operates on the canal embankment from about six to nine in the morning.
Yes, without Copenhagen, many Andersen's fairy tales are inconceivable - not only "Galoshes of happiness" or "A drop of water", where the city has a plot, but also, say, the textbook "Flint": "A dog has eyes - each with a Round Tower." The view of a true writer who managed to see not frontally, but in cross section, the XYI century tower, one of the main attractions of Copenhagen. The height of the tower is 35 meters. There are no steps in it - the ascent is carried out along a gentle flooring. History testifies that Peter I, who visited Copenhagen in 1721, drove to the top of the tower in a carriage drawn by six horses.

The shadows of the heroes of the Great Storyteller hover in Christianhavn - an ancient district of Copenhagen, the construction of which began in 1618 at the direction of Christian IV. Merchants and wealthy citizens built their mansions here. Located on one of the streets, the Church of the Savior is notable for its spire, which, contrary to architectural tradition, is "twisted" counterclockwise.
The shepherdess and the chimney sweep, having climbed onto the roof, are still admiring the beautiful views of the Danish capital: the Town Hall building with a gilded figure of Bishop Absalon, the founder of Copenhagen; the spire of the Stock Exchange, formed by the intertwining of dragon tails and crowned with three crowns, symbolizing the former state union of Denmark, Sweden and Norway; the court theater and the royal museum "Arsenal" with a collection of ancient clothes, carriages, firearms ...
And Ole Lukoye opens his fabulous umbrella over the Gefion Fountain, which is associated with an old legend, well known to Andersen - aren't legends nourishing the writer's imagination? This is a legend about the daughter of the great Scandinavian gods Asov. Gefion was endowed with extraordinary strength and intelligence, she loved to wander. Somehow she wandered into the country of the Swedes. All day and all night she told about her travels to the wise King Gylfi. As a sign of gratitude, the king promised to give Gefion as much land as her bulls plow in one day and one night. The next morning, in front of the astonished Gylfi, an immense field was spread, which was plowed by her four sons, who took the form of gigantic bulls. The sculptor A. Bondgard captured the moment when Gefion harnessed the bulls at the edge of a plowed field, waved her whip, they pulled with all their might ... and tore their land from Sweden. The bulls were not able to carry the heavy burden far - in clear weather, the Swedish coast is clearly visible from the fountain, and at the narrowest point of the Öresund Strait, which separates Denmark and Sweden, the width of the water strip is 3.7 km.

North-east of the city center near the embankment - the "sea facade" of Copenhagen, Andersen's Little Mermaid sitting on a rock looks into the sea: the sculpture was installed in 1913 with sponsorship of the famous Carlsberg brewery. At houses No. 20 and 67 along the embankment of the Nyhavn canal, one can read on memorial plaques that Andersen himself lived and worked here in different years.
Grateful compatriots immortalized Andersen's name not only in monuments, but also in the names of streets, theaters, restaurants and even ... Ole Lukoye sandwiches and children's pajamas! In any case, the author, walking one day in Copenhagen, found a matchbox with a profile of the writer lying on the pavement on Vestergade Street - just opposite the house number 28, in which Andersen's close friend poet and playwright Adam Elenschleger lived, and obliquely from the City Hall, next to which in 1961 a new monument to the great storyteller was opened. In the Hall of the Town Hall, along with busts of other famous Danes, there is also an image of Andersen. And on the square, a bronze writer in a top hat on his head and with a cane in his hands looks at the busiest thoroughfare of Copenhagen, Hans-Christian Andersen Boulevard, seething at his feet.

Foggy Copenhagen with colorful houses with weather vanes, endless canals, city parks, museums and beautiful palaces is truly a fabulous city with a special atmosphere. But, perhaps, the main reason for the magic of the city is the world-famous storyteller - Hans Christian Andersen.

This Danish writer created the most beloved character - the Little Mermaid, whose monument, by the way, is a symbol of Denmark, as well as Thumbelina, Snow Queen, Kai and Gerda, the Ugly Duckling and many others. His works are very kind and naive, but always covered with a slight sadness, which is so in line with the spirit of beautiful and cool Copenhagen!

Andersen is one of the first associations with Denmark, and the locals decided to perpetuate the glory of the great writer in Copenhagen. There are two monuments of Andersen in the city, one is located in the Royal Garden of Rosenborg, and the other on the Town Hall Square - the most honorable place in the capital.

Interesting Facts

The design of both monuments featured children who would sit at his feet or hold his hands while he told them his stories. But Andersen confidently dismissed this because he writes not only for children, but also for adults.
In the Royal Park, Andersen is depicted with a book in his hand, but looking straight ahead, in some kind of reverence or creative impulse. Initially, Andersen was supposed to be portrayed in the process of reading, but he strongly opposed this, because reading aloud will never compare with a living story.
It is known that Andersen was an ardent opponent of the creation of the Tivoli amusement park, which at the moment is located just a couple of minutes on foot from his monument on the Town Hall Square. It is ironic that the writer's gaze is directed precisely towards Tivoli.
Near Andersen on the Town Hall Square there is a lamppost, the base of which is nothing more than a skillfully disguised dog.

Information about the Andersen monument on the Town Hall Square

Address: H. C. Andersens Boulevard 20, 1553 Copenhagen

You can get to the square by almost any public transport, whose route runs through the center of Copenhagen.
You can quickly get from any city in Denmark, and from remote areas of Copenhagen by train. You will need to get off at the station called Koebenhavn H and walk for 5 minutes towards Tivoli Park.
If you are staying in the center of Copenhagen, you can easily walk to the most famous square on foot, as it is located in the cultural center of the capital, along the way you can enjoy the ancient elegant architecture of the city.
As always, taxis and paid parking spaces for car owners are at your service.

Information about the Andersen monument in the Rosenborg castle garden

Address: ?ster Voldgade 4A, 1350 K?benhavn, Denmark

Due to its convenient location in the center of the city, getting to it will not be difficult.
A couple of minutes walk is the railway station called N?rreport, as well as the metro station of the same name.
The castle and the vast territory adjacent to it are literally surrounded by bus stops, past which many buses run every minute. You can easily get to the castle on this view. public transport, you only need to make sure that the bus route passes through the city center.
If you are staying in the center of Copenhagen, we recommend that you walk to the castle. After all, the Danish capital is famous throughout the world for its stunning architecture and abundance of attractions.
And, of course, no one has canceled the convenience of a taxi and transportation in a rented car.

MONUMENTS TO THE HEROES OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALE

Many fairy tales were created by the famous Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.
Hans Christian Andersen (Danish Hans Christian Andersen; April 2, 1805, Odense, Danish-Norwegian Union - August 4, 1875, Copenhagen, Denmark) - Danish prose writer and poet, author of world-famous fairy tales for children and adults.

Monument to Hans Christian Andersen in Bratislava

Monument to Hans Christian Andersen in Copenhagen

The bronze Andersen on the Town Hall Square in Copenhagen looks thoughtfully at Tivoli Park, which is located right there, opposite, across the boulevard, also bearing the name of the famous storyteller. Andersen's knees are shiny, they are rubbed to a shine with the clothes of tourists, especially children who love to be photographed sitting on the bronze knees of the great Dane.

Most of the monuments to the heroes of Andersen's fairy tales are located in Denmark, in the birthplace of the writer in the city of Odense. In addition to the well-known sculpture of the Little Mermaid, sitting on the shores of Copenhagen, there are others, albeit less famous, but also very touching and sweet.

Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen

The symbol of Denmark is the little mermaid, a cute character of the world-famous fairy tale of the same name by the famous Danish storyteller H.-K. Andersen. The Little Mermaid is a small bronze figurine 125 cm tall and weighing 175 kilograms and is located in the port of Copenhagen on a granite pedestal.
The history of this fairy tale character is known to all. The little mermaid, living in her water world, once, during a shipwreck, saves the handsome prince and falls in love with him, so much so that she can no longer be in her world and live her life. And the little mermaid decides to turn to the witch for help. I gave her my beautiful voice, the little mermaid gains a pair of legs instead of a tail, the opportunity to be with her prince on land for only a few days and a chance to charm him. However, he falls in love with another and thereby dooms the little mermaid to death. She has a chance to get her life back, but she must kill her lover. But the little mermaid, truly loving the prince, wishes him happiness with his bride and turns into sea foam.
This sad tale of true devotion and pure love was written by Andersen in 1836. After 73 years, a ballet was staged based on The Little Mermaid, which was a huge success with thousands of spectators. Among them was the founder of Carlsberg Carl Jacobsen, a great admirer of art. Both the story itself and the ballet made such a strong impression on him that he asked Edward Erickson, a Danish sculptor, to create a statue of the little mermaid. They say that the wife of the sculpture, who was then a well-known ballerina of the royal theater, posed for the sculpture. Subsequently, it was decided to donate the statue of the Little Mermaid to Copenhagen. And on August 23, 1913, a little bronze Mermaid was installed in the capital of Denmark.
After an American journalist told the whole earth about this wonderful sculpture dedicated to such a miraculous transformation fabulous creature into a sweet dumb girl, the monument to the Little Mermaid has become a symbol not only of the capital, but of all of Denmark, the birthplace of the great storyteller. To some extent, the little mermaid also reflects the geographical essence of Denmark, which is an island country and, one might say, surrounded on all sides by seas and oceans.
However, obviously not everyone fell in love with the monument, there were many ill-wishers who made a lot of attempts to desecrate the statue. What the already poor mermaid has not gone through - 8 acts of vandalism. In 1984, vandals abused the sculpture by sawing off its hand, since 1998 they cut off its head 3 times and painted parts of the body, and in 2003 they even pushed it into the water. But no matter what happened to her, the little mermaid was always restored from the cast left by her creator. After all, it has become close not only to the inhabitants of Copenhagen and means a lot not only to Denmark ... Millions of tourists come from all over the world to look at this wonderful statue, touch it, take a picture and ask for the fulfillment of their most cherished desire.

Monument to the fairy-tale hero Ole-Lukoyev Mytishchi

Ole Lukoje (date.Ole Lukoje) - literary character Hans Christian Andersen, based on folk tales. The story tells about the mysterious mystical creature like the Sandman who shows children dreams. Some elements in the story of Olya Lukoya are also reminiscent of Morpheus, Greek god sleep: for example, Ole, like Morpheus, uses a special hypnotic liquid to lull children (Ole has sweet milk).
The name Ole Lukoye consists of two parts: Ole - Danish male name, Lukoye translates as "Close your eyes." He carries two umbrellas under his arm, which he opens to sleeping children. For children who behaved well, an umbrella with beautiful pictures is intended. It helps them to have beautiful pleasant dreams. For naughty children, Ole Lukoye opens an umbrella without pictures. These children spend the night without dreams.
In the tale, Ole Lukoye visits a boy named Hjalmar every night for a week and tells him stories. In the course of the tale, it turns out that Ole is actually very old. On the last evening, on Sunday, Ole Lukoye tells the boy about his brother, whose name is the same, but he also has a middle name - Death. He comes to close the eyes of those who have come to leave this world, and take them with him.
Thus, the image of Ole Lukoye is divided into two: like the Greek Thanatos and Hypnos, the gods of death and sleep, the characters are related and different from each other. So "a little funny man turns out to be a guide not only through the realm of dreams, but also into the realm of death, in which the images of Heaven and Hell are vaguely guessed."

Steadfast Tin Soldier (Odens)

A steadfast tin soldier guards the peace of the townspeople on the edge of the old quarter. In the city square, in Odense, proudly puffing out his chest, he stands on a small cart that serves as a kind of pedestal. The sculpture is made of copper. The hero of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen has a heroic growth, more than 3 meters.
The locals believe in one sign. The guest of Odense, having visited the sculpture of a steadfast tin soldier, must strain and try to move the cart by pulling the rope. However, even if the guest does not achieve a result, luck will follow him all day.

One of his very first fairy tales - "Thumbelina" - was written in 1835. The heroine of the fairy tale fell in love with both adults and children. IN different countries around the world based on the fairy tale, feature and animated films have been shot, performances and musicals have been staged based on it. And the sculptors immortalize the tiny kind girl in their immortal works.

In the capital of Ukraine Kiev, near the puppet theater, there is a fountain "Thumbelina"

In the Riviera Park in Sochi, next to Thumbelina, you can sit on a flower and dream about a handsome prince ...
This sculptural composition was cast from bronze by the artist A. Butaev.