Motif from The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen
by JACOBSEN, Niels Hansen, Plaster, 152 x 183 x 108 cm
In a dynamic pose, Death strides over the mother crouching on the ground. Her dead child is half hidden by the fluttering cloak.
Hans Christian Andersen’s (1805-1875) tale The Story of a Mother provided the literary source of Hansen Jacobsen’s sculpture.
In addition to this original plaster model, two bronze versions of the sculpture exists. One is located on the St. Petri cemetery in Copenhagen, while the other is placed by the museum that houses Jacobsen’s life’s work: Vejen Kunstmuseum.