Liberty Column
Also known as Frihedsstøtten
1797
Neoclassical
public art
Twenty metres of Bornholm sandstone on a Norwegian marble base rise beside Vesterbrogade near Copenhagen Central Station: Frihedsstøtten is a neoclassical obelisk raised in 1792-1797 to commemorate the abolition of stavnsbåndet and the…
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- 1797
Nicolai Abildgaard, Andreas Weidenhaupt
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