Johan Herman Wessel og Johannes Ewald
Johan Herman Wessel og Johannes Ewald is a sculpture by Otto Evens on the square beside Trinitatis Church in Copenhagen. Installed in 1879, it honours two Danish poets connected with this ground.
The square replaced a cemetery established in 1657 on the church’s southern side. Johan Herman Wessel wrote satirical poetry and plays, while Johannes Ewald worked as a dramatist and poet. Both writers were buried here before inner-city burials ended in 1851. Behind the church, several grave markers preserve a small trace of that earlier landscape.
Trinitatis Church belongs to a seventeenth-century complex with the Round Tower and Copenhagen University Library. Granite pieces from the Round Tower’s cornice now serve as benches on the square. Nearby, Anders Tinsbo’s 1970 sculpture Vandkunst and a 1932 bust of Tycho Brahe add further layers of Copenhagen’s public art.
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