It's been builted in 1921
Carl Jacobsen, the Danish beer magnate who commissioned the Little Mermaid statue, also founded the Copenhagen Glyptotek. The central rotunda at the Glyptotek is called the Winter Garden, filled with sunlight and subtropical plants.
The Water Mother depicts a 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.
Kai Nielsen was born on 26 November 1882 in Svendborg, the son of Christian Nielsen, a watchmaker, and his wife Ane Marie. At 15 he became an apprentice painter but was artistically inclined and began to paint landscapes and portraits. At the same time he studied at the technical school in Svendborg where he was taught moulding by Edvard Eriksen,later famous for creating The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen
