The Little Mermaid is a statue of a mermaid in Langelinie Promenade, Copenhagen, Denmark. Based on the fairy tale from the famous Hans Christian Andersen, the statue with a height of 1.25 metres (4 ft) is a Copenhagen icon and a major tourist attraction.
The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the prima-ballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the bronze statue, which was unveiled on 23 August 1913. The statue's head was modelled after Price, but as the ballerina did not agree to model in the nude, the sculptor's wife, Eline Eriksen, was used for the body.
The statue displayed in Copenhagen harbour has always been a copy. The original is still kept by the sculptor's heirs at an undisclosed location. Other undamaged copies of the statue are located in Solvang, California; Kimballton, Iowa; Piatra Neamţ, Romania and a half-sized copy in Calgary, Canada. The grave of Danish-American entertainer Victor Borge, includes a copy as well. The statue is still under copyright, and several copies of the statue have provoked legal threats.
(Source: Wikipedia, 2012)
I do hope that you enjoy this short post while an update of the location of the Little Mermaid will be posted soon...The Langelinie Promenade
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