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Erik Bagges laboratorie- og H.C. Andersen billeder

Hans Christian Andersen
 
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The Flying Trunk
(40X30 cm) 1997

The idea behind this wonderful fairy-tale is fabulous, as H.C. Andersen anticipates the "flying age" that we live in today.

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The Tinder-box
(40X30 cm) 1997

This painting is inspired by the very first scene of the fairy-tale, where the soldier is stopped by the old witch, who asks him to crawl into an old  hollow tree and get a tinder-box.

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The Ugly Duckling

If you are different, you will easily become a victim of mockery.

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The Story of a Mother
(30X40 cm) 1998

When a child dies it is and has always been a major tragedy for the mother of the child.

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She Was Good For Nothing

Alcohol soothes the daily grind for a lot of people.

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The Shepherdess and the Sweep

Very few - today and back in the time of H.C. Andersen - have a realistic relationship to their surroundings.

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The Emperor's New Suit
(30X40 cm) 1999

Normal people don't understand many the things that are appreciated today.

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Jack the Dullard
(30X40 cm)

Very few have the courage to be themselves.

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The Little Mermaid
(30X41 cm) 1996

The motif is from the passageway in the fairy-tale where the little mermaid and the prince meet. She is dumb and has only one leg.

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Little Ida's Flowers
(30X41 cm) 1999

Children's imagination is wonderful. H.C. Andersen's fairy-tale about little Ida's belief that flowers come alive at night is as true today as it was back then.

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The Little Match-Seller
(30X40 cm) 1997

It is not always easy to modernize H.C. Andersen's fairy-tales. The Little Match-Seller is a good example of that.

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The Nightingale

Today the fake nightingale is sitting a "television cage".

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The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf

Do we tread on the loaf today as well?

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The Princess and the Pea

Woman's status in society has changed a lot, but is she still a "real princess"?

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The Red Shoes

The girl wanted more than she was meant to have.

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The Shadow

Electronics has become the master of our lives.

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The Snow Queen

Kaj got a bewitched splinter in his eye and he forgot about Gerda and had to go out in the cold.

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The Brave Tin Soldier

He did well in spite of his leg - the brave soldier.

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Little Claus and Big Claus

The fairy-tale is eternal. This is the story about rich people, who do not  grudge poor people anything at all.

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Little Tiny or Thumbelina
(30X40 cm) 1997

A fairy-tale is - well yes - a fairy-tale and it is not always possible to modernize them, because nobody gives birth to a child as small as the child in "Little Tiny or Thumbelina".

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