Hippocampus Well

Originally installed on Kultorvet in Copenhagen, it has now been moved to the central courtyard of the Danish Design Museum on Bredgade.

At its meeting on 20 May 1908, Foreningen til Hovedstadens Forskønnelse decided to launch a competition for the design of a fountain for the "new square".

It was initially decided to install 1;1 models of both works on the square but Skovgaard was unable to meet the deadline and Harboe's proposal was therefore selected as the winner.

In November 1910, at a board meeting in Fonden til Kunstneriske Formaals Fremme, he proposed that it should be installed in another location.

Om April 2004, Bejen Kunstmuseum bought another plaster model of the work (19.2 × 18.8 × 28.2 cm) at auction.

The fountain photographed by Holger Damgaard on Kultorvet in 1923.
Detail of one of the plaster models in Vejen Art Museum.