Art and Sculptures

This sculpture pays tribute to a great personality who has left his footprints within art in Sønderborg's streetscape.

Der Butt im Griff (Halibut in grip) is a bronze sculpture.
Artist: Günther Grass (1927-2015).

The sculpture is 2.3 M and shows an arm, whose hand holds a halibut which symbolizes experience in life an...

H.R.H. Prince Henrik (1934-2018) first made the royal work of art Dronningen (the Queen) as a chess piece. The chess set was a gift to Crown Prince Frederik at his 20´st birthday.

The sculpture made ...

Horse and rider in bronze on a granite plinth. Artist: Hans Pauli Olsen.

The 2.25 m high and 1.90 m wide.

The statue was purchased by the Tilting at the Ring Committee and given to Sønderborg Municipa...

Faces
Faces in burnt clay, produced in 2004 by the local artist Vibeke Fonnesberg.

The faces are placed in the wall on the Solo-building at The Spanish Stairs.

The Solo-building is an apartment house...

The statue Als has a central location in front of the town hall in Sønderborg, when the lush girl was revealed in her time, not all citizens of the city were thrilled.

The sculpture shows Svend Grathe, builder of Nordborg Castle, holding a model of the castle in his hand. It was unveiled in 1951, in connection with the 800th anniversary of Nordborg Castle.

The bron...

The worlds largest pot
The pot was produced on the Square “Rådhustorvet in Sønderborg during the Pottery DM in 1990. Aksel Krog, Leif Vange and Jørgen Hansen, hand-welled a 3.40 m pot, using 1800 kg cl...

The glass mosaic in Sct. Marie Kirke (church) was sketched by artist Per Kirkeby and revealed the 27. November 2011.

The mosaics are inspired by the Garden of Getschemane in Jerusalem and the empty to...

Sculpture in bronze, made in 1995 by Heidi Guthmann Birck, to celebrate the schools 75 year anniversary.

Heidi G. Birck is born in Germany but lives in Denmark since 1965. In her fascination of the h...

Steel sculpture made of the artist Kristian Dahlgård Larsen in 1999.

The sculpture is in layers, showing portraits with relation to Idrætshøjskolen (the sports college) in Sønderborg.

An artist will never explain his own abstract work. Jørgen Haugen Sørensen's long title (They move, become heavy, and die) gives a hint of the sculptor's intentions and leaves the rest to the imaginat...

The sculpture was made by Erik Heide in 1978. "The Animal" symbolizes all animals, rather than any particular one.

Inspiration came from a statue seen by Erik Heide at the British Museum in London, d...

Bronze sculpture made by the local artist Vibeke Fonnesberg, revealed the 6. October 2011.

This is the first and pt. only sculpture of a former citizen in full body scale.

Martin with the whistle was ...

The artwork Hønekilden is part of a small oasis around the old legendary spring.

The water art by Vibeke Fonnesberg is made in bronze and if you look closely at the figurines of the three hens and th...

“Myten” (the Myth) is a bronze sculpture. Artist: Eiler Madsen.

The sculpture symbolizes the myth of King Christian the 2nd, who was held prisoner at Sønderborg Castle in 12 years during the 16th hund...

Sculpture made of artificial stone by Povl Søndergaard (1905-1986). Donated by former students at the schools 25th anniversary in 1945, which was celebrated during three days in August. The final year...

Sculpture in brick works and burnt clay, produced in 2004 by the local artist Vibeke Fonnesberg.

The sculpture is placed in a small inner courtyard at the Solo-building near The Spanish Stairs.

The So...

The basic form represents the universe, this sculpture was produced in 2004 by the professional artist Rick Towle, born in USA and living in Sønderborg.

The sculpture is placed at the Solo-building ne...

Faces
Faces in burnt clay, produced in 2004 by the local artist Vibeke Fonnesberg.

The faces are placed in the wall on the Solo-building at The Spanish Stairs.

The Solo-building is an apartment house...

This bronze sculpture is a self-portrait by Claus Carstensen. Erected 2007.

Claus Carstensen was a student at the school in 1976 and was educated at The Royal Danish Art Academy in 1983, he since ...

The gate to the school was designed by Henning Weile and Gynter Hartmann, but created by the nearly 500 pupils to mark the schools 100 year birthday in 2007.

Each pupil was spending a day at Petersen...

Sculpture in several types of granite from Sweden and South Africa, created by Jørgen Haugen Sørensen in 1978-79.

The figure is composed of 10 parts, of which some are rough-hewn and undecorated, whil...

A sick and cut down peace oak is given a new life.

In 150 years, the peace oak was a landmark at the square Torvet in the city of Gråsten, but in 2013, the peace oak had to fall due to sickness.

The...

In 2015, the local Gråsten Apple festival could reveal a new sculpture at Alnor Strandpark.

The idea is from Heidi Brünning. In the process of giving her thoughts a shape, she used paper line cutting...

A normal and plain stair has become a work of art and a new landmark in the city of Sønderborg.

The artist Kristian Vodder Svensson has within nine days and using a lot of paint transformed the grey ...

In the year of 1845, H.C. Andersen wrote a fairytale based on a drawing by J. Thomas Lundbye.

It is November 18 1845 and Hans Christian is visiting the ducal family at Gråsten Castle. Some days prior...

This sculpture in natural size is built in 2020 by the local village society Kettingskov Landsbylaug.

The sculpture is erected at the corner of the roads Østkystvejen/Nørre Kettingskov. The table/ben...

The foyer wall at Alsion Concert hall is decorated by a 330 m² large, unique art work, which stretches from floor to ceiling.

Approximately 5000 three-dimensional, ceramic tiles with a platinum glaze...

You can see this beautiful installation, placed outside between the Alsion building and the inlet Als Sund. The well-known artist Olafur Eliasson erected the pavilion in 2009.

The round pavilion stan...

Six rings of stainless steel in the dimensions 4 - 5.5 metres make the art installation.
The idea behind the work is that there is no place, where the gaze stops; it slides timelessly along the shape...

The sculpture “Synergy” is found at Sundgade opposite Sønderborg Castle, it is one of the 7 art designs within the art project “Reflections”, a more permanent celebration of the 100 year anniversary o...

This work of art is found at the culture house Forsamlingsgaarden Sundeved, it is one of the 7 art designs within the art project “Reflections”, a more permanent celebration of the 100 year anniversar...

The artwork “Mosaic of the Border country” is placed near the Memorial of the fallen in WW1 at the church Broager Kirke. This work of art is one of the 7 art designs within the art project “Reflection...

Artist Chili Seitz has created the artwork at the agriculture school Gråsten Landbrugsskole. This work of art is one of the 7 art designs within the art project “Reflections”, a more permanent celebra...

The art design “§5” is based on local history. The design stands as a symbol of the paragraph in the Peace of Prague, a local inn and the name of the crossroad where the design is placed.

The idea an...

This work of art is found at Nordborg City Park near the castle, it is one of the 7 art designs within the art project “Reflections”, a more permanent celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the Re...

The sculpture “Walking Through” is found at the village Lysabild, it is one of the 7 art designs within the art project “Reflections”, a more permanent celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the R...

The head of the Border Gendarmerie - fallen in battle against the Gestapo, 26 May 1944

The memorial stone on Kirketorvet was sketched by the architect Thomas Havning (1891-1976) and erected in 1923.

There are 192 names, German as well as Danish, all fallen in 1. WW (1914-18). Notice the...

At the cemetery of Egen Church, near Guderup, the memorial stones of the fallen in World War 1 (1914-18) is found at the freestanding clock tower.

Here 66 memorial stones in marble is placed in memor...

At the cemetery of Broager Church a memorial hill was raised for the fallen in World War 1 (1914-18).

164 memorial stones with names and dates of birth of the fallen from the area of Broager surround...

The memorial stone over Peter Reimers was made by sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen (1861-1941). The stone was erected by fellow compatriots in 1926 (see the stones backside).

Peter Reimers (1826-1922) w...