Carl Jacobsen, the Danish beer magnate who commissioned the Little Mermaid statue, also founded the Copenhagen Glyptotek, where we spent most of our time today. The highlights, for us, included the large collections of Greek and Roman statuary, the French impressionist and post-impressionist sculptures and paintings, and a string quartet concert (Mendelssohn and Beethoven) we happened upon at just the right time.
The central rotunda at the Glyptotek is called the Winter Garden, filled with sunlight and subtropical plants. Situated near the garden's entrance is a koi pond with a disturbing statue by Danish sculptor Kai Nielsen (1882-1924). Entitled "The Water Mother" (1921), the statue depicts a vacant-faced woman with fourteen squirming, foetus-like babies crawling up from the
water to suck the life force out of her. The baby with the bizarrely big head, sitting precociously upright on the mother's arm and holding an apple, is supposed to be Venus.
Carl Jacobsen, the Danish beer magnate who commissioned the Little Mermaid statue, also founded the Copenhagen Glyptotek, where we spent most of our time today. The highlights, for us, included the large collections of Greek and Roman statuary, the French impressionist and post-impressionist sculptures and paintings, and a string quartet concert (Mendelssohn and Beethoven) we happened upon at just the right time.
The central rotunda at the Glyptotek is called the Winter Garden, filled with sunlight and subtropical plants. Situated near the garden's entrance is a koi pond with a disturbing statue by Danish sculptor Kai Nielsen (1882-1924). Entitled "The Water Mother" (1921), the statue depicts a vacant-faced woman with fourteen squirming, foetus-like babies crawling up from the 
water to suck the life force out of her. The baby with the bizarrely big head, sitting precociously upright on the mother's arm and holding an apple, is supposed to be Venus.
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