Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Mermaid, 1920

With mouth and eyes wide open, the mermaid meets the world with a scream. She speaks directly to us about basic, vital instincts. About zest for life and inner strength which runs through the works of Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. But also about despair and loss, which was personally motivated by her husband, the composer Carl Nielsen’s, many affairs. A few years earlier she had filed for divorce, but …