Louis Hasselriis

Louis Hassel Riis (also Ludvig Hassel Riis, born January 12, 1844 in Hillerød, † May 20, 1912 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) was a Danish sculptor who was best known for his portrait sculptures.

Life and work

Hasselriis studied with Herman Wilhelm Bissen and was like this heavily influenced by Neo- Bertel Thorvaldsen. He lived from 1869 to some time in Rome, but always remained in close connection to his country of birth. So he created a Shakespeare Statue of Elsinore and Copenhagen Monuments Danish national heroes and celebrities such as Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld and Søren Kierkegaard. In Odense, and in New Jersey are created by Hasselriis statues of Hans Christian Andersen.

Among his most famous works in Germany include the bust of Heinrich Heine, which adorns the grave stele of the poet in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. A sedentary marble sculpture Heine, the Hassel Riis in 1873 made ​​, by Empress Elisabeth of Austria - Hungary in 1892 in the park of her castle build on Achillion Corfu. From there she was away in 1909 at the behest of Emperor Wilhelm II, who had purchased the castle. After several relocations in the center of Hamburg and Altona it was finally set up in Toulon.

The Heine monument in Toulon ( 1873)

Søren Kierkegaard's monument, Royal Library Garden, Copenhagen ( 1879)

Wine drinking Satyr, Ørsted Park, Copenhagen ( 1888)

Denmark Monument, Østre Anlæg, Copenhagen ( 1897)