On December 19th 1940, the Norwegian-American sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen (b. 1872) died in Rome, where he'd lived for almost half a century. Between 1922 and 1925, Andersen designed and built theVilla Hélène (named after his beloved mother, who lived with him until her death in 1927), a grand house-cum-studio, which, on his death, he bequeathed (full of his sculptures) to the Italian State. His adopted sister Lucia was given the right for life to continue residing in Villa Hélène. Lucia died in 1978, at the grand old age of ninety-four, and the Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen was inaugurated twenty-one years later on December 19th 1999, the 59th anniversary of the sculptor's death. Hendrik Christian Andersen is buried in Rome's Cimitero Acattolico (Non-Catholic Cemetery), also known as the Protestant or English Cemetery. The tomb, which he designed, is also the final resting-place of his mother, his elder brother Andreas and wife Olivia, and his adopted sister Lucia. Comments are closed.
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My name is David Lown and I am an art historian from Cambridge, England. Since 2001 I have lived in Italy, where I run private walking tours of Rome.
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