Louis Hasselriis Danish, 1844-1912

Hasselriis trained under the famous Danish sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen (himself an assistant of Thorwaldsen) and settled in Rome from 1869. He is the sculptor of the large bronze statue of Hans Cristian Andersen erected in the author's hometown of Odense, as well as a Satyr with Amphora in Copenhagen cast by the Nelli foundry of Rome (the marble is in the Arhus Kunstmuseum (1889)). Hasselriis received a royal commission from Empress Elizabeth of Austria (Sissi) for a seated marble statue of Heinrich Heine for her Corfu villa, the Achilleion. After the Kaiser inherited the villa in 1898 he sent it to Hamburg where it was later removed by the Nazi authorities. It ended up in Toulon where it remains in the Jardin de Mourillon.