Niels Hansen Jacobsen

At the Academy of Art, he received drawing lessons from Frederik Vermehren and Carl Bloch, while the sculptor Theobald Stein taught anatomy and Vilhelm Bissen in modeling.

He was awarded the Eckersberg Medal and a grant which led him to travel to Germany, Italy and France during 1891.

In the years following his return to Denmark, a new field of work came to fill much in his production: cutting grave and memorial stones.

[5] Existential themes such as freedom and time affect Niels Hansen Jacobsen throughout much of his sculptures.

With his imaginative and strangely symbolic sculptures, Hansen Jacobsen gave form to abstract phenomena such as death, night and shadow.