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ORIGINAL DRAWING BY MARTIN (PATO) SIEBENHAAR
Grundtvig’s Church was built in memory of the priest, hymn writer and educator Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872).
His significance for Denmark was so great that he simply had to have an extraordinary memo-rial. It was not until 1912 and 1913, when two competitions were held for proposals that the architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen Klint (1853-1930) came upon the idea that the right memorial had to be a church. His project was chosen among numerous statues, memorial columns and architectural de-signs, even though it was calculated that it would cost twenty times more than it had been intended to collect for the purpose.
42× 58
ORIGINAL DRAWING BY MARTIN (PATO) SIEBENHAAR
Grundtvig’s Church was built in memory of the priest, hymn writer and educator Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872).
His significance for Denmark was so great that he simply had to have an extraordinary memo-rial. It was not until 1912 and 1913, when two competitions were held for proposals that the architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen Klint (1853-1930) came upon the idea that the right memorial had to be a church. His project was chosen among numerous statues, memorial columns and architectural de-signs, even though it was calculated that it would cost twenty times more than it had been intended to collect for the purpose.
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