Death and the Mother

3D File Logo  3D

Published 2020-06-04T10:36:46+00:00

    Death and the Mother image
    Death and the Mother image
    Death and the Mother image
    Death and the Mother image
Loader
3D
  1. Scan the World>
  2. Europe>
  3. Denmark>
  4. Copenhagen>
  5. SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst
Featured Scan The World
21,724 views 3,463 downloads
67 collections
Community Prints Add your picture
Loader
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
  • Picture of print of Death and the Mother
1 comments
    Loading comments...

    Death and the Mother

    3D File Logo  3D

    Published 2020-06-04T10:36:46+00:00

    SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

    @SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

    381 objects

    2,834 Followers
    373 1 Add to Collection
    Description

    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:

    "And she lowered her head into her lap. And Death took her child into the Unknown Lands."

    Visually, Hansen Jacobsen’s main sources of inspiration was other paintings of the time, where the motif of Death as the Grim Reaper appears in several variations, e.g. in works by the French painter Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) and the Danish painter L.A. Ring (1854-1933).

    With its expressive idiom and obvious symbolism, this work marks a break with the naturalism that served as Hansen Jacobsen’s first point of departure, pointing ahead to the exuberance that came to characterise his sculptures in the years that followed.

    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, no less appropriately, placed by the museum that houses his life’s work: Vejen Kunstmuseum.

    Show more Show less
    License
    Technical Information
    Date published 04/06/2020
    Complexity pages.object.complexitydifficult
    More Information
    Title Motif from The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen
    Date 1892
    Dimension w183 x h152 x d108 cm
    Accession KMS 5387
    Medium Plaster
    Record LINK CURRENTLY NOT WORKING
    Artist Niels Hansen Jacobsen
    Place SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst
    Object Parts
    Smk15 Smk5387.Stl
    3D View
    Tags
    mother sculpture story Death 3dprinting Narrative openglam artec-eva SMK-Open 3d-printable grim-reaper hans-christian-andersen
    Interesting objects for you
    Show more