Elna Borch

Although her known work is considered high quality by art dealers, Borch is today largely forgotten and little known to the general public.

She later learned sculpture in Copenhagen from sculptor August Saabye, who became her instructor when she was at the Academy of Fine Arts for Women (Kunstakademiets Kunstskole for Kvinde).

[5] In Paris in 1901, she sculpted the bust Laughing Faun, and in 1902, she visited northern Italy, where she made the figure Sorrowful Boy which later received the Neuhausen Prize.

She was the first female sculptor represented in Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, where her most famous sculpture Death and the Maiden resides.

In 1936, she received the travel scholarship Tagea Brandts Rejselegat, a Danish award for women who have made significant contributions in the fields of science, literature or art.