Carl Christian Ernst Hartmann (13 September 1837 – 6 September 1901) was a

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sculptor who worked with antique motifs in the Thorvaldsen tradition. The son of composer

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and his composer wife Emma Hartmann, née Zinn, Hartmann was born in

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. After training with August Saabye and

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, he attended the

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from 1855, receiving the silver medal in 1859. He worked mainly with bronze rather than the more common marble. While in Rome in 1863, he created a colossal statue of ''Alexandros''. In the 1870s, he joined the Johannes Group in connection with Vor Frue Kirke in Copenhagen. For a time, he was cultural correspondent for ''

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''. Being highly musical, he also occasionally composed. A song of his, ''Mismod'', sent anonymously to a jury consisting of

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and C.F.E. Horneman was selected by it to be published in 1870 in ''Nordiske'' ''Musikblade''.

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