Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan

After completing his stonemason's apprenticeship, he set out as a journeyman in 1878 to travel Europe. He lived in Rome between 1881 and 1887 where he studied at the Art Academy.[1]

Back in Denmark, Pedersen-Dans created a number of well-known sculptures. These include the Little Horn-Blower at City Hall Square in Copenhagen (bronze, 1899), the four granite elephants of the Elephant Gate at the Ny Carlsberg brewery in Valby (1901) and a statue of Ogier the Dane for the romantic gardens at Marienlyst House (bronze 1907).[1] The latter was later re-cast in artificial stone at placed in the dungeons underneath Kronborg Castle.

He also designed a monument to Danish volunteers in World War I in Rueil-Malmaison in France and the four statues of queens of the Queens Gate at the new Christiansborg Palace.

Pedersen-Dan was married to Johanne Pedersen-Dan (1860–1934) who was an actress before she also turned to sculpturing, in 1888, training under Stephan Sinding. The couple adopted a girl, Rigmor. They lived in Hvirovre Rytterskole in Hvidovre from 1912.

• Michael Drewsen, Silkeborg, (1892)
• The Little Horn-Blower, City Hall Square, Copenhagen (1899)
• Carlsberg Elephants, Carlsberg, Copenhagen (1901)
• Hans Rostgaard, Krogerup Højskole, Helsingør (1904)
• Holger Danske, Kronborg Castle / Skjern (1907)
• A Mother, Hvidovre, Copenhagen (bronze, 1908)
• Christian IX, Nyborg, Denmark (bronze, 1908)
• Christian IX, Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen (marble, 1908)
• Monument to Danish World War I Volunteers, Rueil-Malmaison, France
• Ismael, Aarhus (1934)

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  Carlsberg (1901) elephants, Copenhagen
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  Ogier the Dane (1907)
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  The Little Horn-Blower
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  Ishmael with his bow

• List of Danish sculptors

• Toftemark , Eva: Hyldest til en moder : billedhuggeren H.P. Pedersen-Dan og hans kunst (48 pages)