SCULPTURES IN PALSGAARD CASTLE PARK

Wife with dogs

Artist, :Hanne Varming. Made of bronze.

Many of Hanne Varming's sculptures originate from everyday images, glimpses of situations, people who appear, the essence of a particular situation, a certain age or feeling. This is also how you can see this bronze sculpture of a pleasant woman with her two small dogs. There is something gentle, something motherly about the scene, and you sense the tenderness that is present.

Wife with Dogs can also be experienced at Valby Tingsted, which Hanne Varming could see from the window of her former studio. Reportedly, several ideas have arisen from situations that have unfolded in this particular place.

See more pictures in the gallery below.

About the artist

Hanne Varming was born on 13 May 1939 in Copenhagen. She was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1958-65 with Gottfred Eickhoff and Mogens Bøggild and made her debut at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1963.

Hanne Varming was a member of the Artists' Association Kammeraterne from 1974 to 2001 and has been a member of the Artists' Association Corner since 2001.

From 1986 to 1993 she was a medalist at the Royal Danish Mint, and has thus been the designer of the obverse of the 10- and 20-krone coins.

Hanne Varming is a popular artist, and her sculptures adorn public spaces in several places in Denmark. Among other things, they can be seen at Kultorvet, at Victor Borges Plads in Copenhagen and at Valby Tingsted. Less accessible, the four large sculptures decorate the prison yards in East Jutland's State Prison.

Hanne Varming's sculptures are recognisable as human figures - there is no doubt about age, gender, etc., but they do not depict individual features. Rather, they can be seen as the concentration of recognizable situations, life stages, and emotions.