The Historian · Freja · Copenhagen
The Little Mermaid
Tourists come for the statue; I come for what's happened to it. She's been beheaded twice and painted a dozen times — the most politically abused artwork in Denmark.
The 1913 bronze of Andersen's mermaid — smaller than everyone expects, decapitated and vandalised repeatedly, and a lightning rod for Danish protest history.
— Freja, The Historian
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