Sculpture tour in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality

Go for an exciting sculpture tour around Faaborg-Midtfyn municipality

Photo: Faaborg Turistbureau

Take this description with you on your trip by bike or car around Faaborg-Midtfunen and experience nature, urban communities and especially sculptures in public spaces. For more than 10 years, we have registered sculptures in all corners of the municipality. It has turned into over 200 sculptures and some of them we would like to show you. We have prioritised hard and we have chosen some less well-known works.
But if you have an appetite for more, just look up the www.skulptur-faaborg.dk, and here you find the rest of the sculptures. It's a roundtour so you can start in Faaborg, or any other place you prefer. All it takes is for you - on your phone or GPS - to enter where you want to go. The sculpture tour is also an attempt to tie the municipality closer together culturally. We have both enjoyed being "all around" and hope you will enjoy it too.
The tourist office has been responsible for all the technical stuff. We have selected the sculptures, taken pictures and made the text. Have a nice trip.

Sincerely, Anders Rehde Nielsen and Ole Folke Olsen

Photo: Anders Rehde, Skulptur - Faaborg© Faaborg Turistbureau

The Faaborg Girl - No. 1

The Faaborg Girl stands slightly hidden in the northwest corner of the sports field. She is one of Gerhard Henning's significant works, an order from the New Carlsberg Foundation, who wanted to donate a sports girl to the stadium in Faaborg.

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

It's Nothing - No. 2

Artist: Thorkild Hoffmann Larsen (1938-2017) The sculpture in black granite was created around 2001. It has been exhibited in many places, but has now been purchased from Hoffmann's estate and stands on private land fully visible from the road. In the past, the village pump was in the same place.

Photo: Anders Rehde, Skulptur Faaborg© Faaborg Turistbureau

Water Sculpture Korinth City Park - No. 4

The sculpture was erected in 2007. The water Sculpture signals the efforts of the local population to save themselves in safety with common help, while the water flows indicate that there are always…

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

Grundtvig - No. 5

Artists: Arcadio Pento Tomás and Ruben Pena from Cuba. The sculpture is donated by Gallery Svinstien and private. It is set up July 2014.

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

The Birds - No 6

Artist: Søren West (1963-) Set 2001. The sculpture is part of the Ryslinge Sculpture Park, which was inaugurated in 1995. Part of the funds came from The County of Funen. It is worth taking your time and going for a walk in the park and enjoying both sculptures and nature.

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

Memorial - No. 7

Artist: Søren West (1963-)The sculpture was created in 2005 by Ryslinge Valgmenighed and is a memorial to the teacher, musician and composer Thorvald Aagaard (1877-1937).

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

Paver No. 8

Artist: Robert Lund-Jensen (1915-2003) "Brolæggeren" marks the entrance to the environmental company Marius Pedersen and is set in 1978. Robert Lund-Jensen's most famous sculpture is probably "Amanda" in Kerteminde.

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

Pattern as sample I & II - No. 9

Artists: Architect Ina Hjort Jacobsen (since 1983) and sculptor Katrine Würz Hansen (since 1985). Relief and painting were inaugurated in 2016 at the disused shoe sole factory, Polymeren.

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

The Flute Player - No. 10

Artist: Anne Marie Carl Nielsen (1863-1945) The sculpture is a memorial to the composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) created by his wife Anne Marie Carl Nielsen. On the back of the sculpture it says: Raised by Fynboer.

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

Mind flight - No. 11

Artist: Chr. Flensted (1920-1994) The figure, a metal version of one of Flensted's many mobiles, took its place in 1986 in front of tingager Ældrecenter.

Photo: Anders Rehde© Faaborg Turistbureau

The Blue Man Arch - No. 12

"The Blue Human Arch" by Frank Fenriz Jensen is one of the works selected in connection with an urban center plan for Ringe to decorate one of the city's passageways and meeting places. Artist: Frank Fenriz Jensen (1960-)

Photo: Faaborg Turistbureau

Ringe art bench - Termini - No. 13

Termini is thought of as a kind of promenade or belvedere towards the lake.

Mother and Child - No. 14

Artist: Keld Moseholm (1936-) A great work donated by the Albani Foundation and erected in front of the old town hall in Nr. Broby in 1988. A mother sits watching her child, who is about to venture into the water.

Photo: Faaborg Turistbureau

Paper cuttings - No. 15

The sculpture was first cut out of paper and then cut into steel. The motif is inspired by Jeppe Aakjær's "Skuld gammel friendship rejn forgo".

Skolerelief - No. 16

Artist: Erik Corht (1902-1970) The relief is designed as a map of Funen with mother and 2 children. It was unveiled at Vester Hæsinge School's inauguration in 1962 and hangs fully visible from the road.

Rotation - No. 17

Artist: Karin Lind (1969-) The very large sculpture is made as a lattice construction and works on one side as a cattle fence and on the other side as a viewing platform.

Ceramic Sculpture - No. 18

Artist: Philip Streich (1965-) In a green area near the former care centre, you will find the ceramic bird bath with a true Faaborg relief inspired by the Fynbo painters.

Memorial Stone for Peter Hansen - No.19

Made of red sandstone. Set up on 23 October 1931. Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, Faaborg Municipality and private individuals. The artist is a nephew of the painter Peter Hansen