The artist behind the wedding coin

The sculptress Karin Lorentzen is the artist behind the wedding coins, which show a twin portrait of Crown Prince Frederik and Miss Mary Donaldson facing right.

Being a sculptress, Karin Lorentzen has made many portrait busts, but this is her first portrait relief. She comments on her work with the coin as follows:

"It is a challenge to make the motif artistically attractive while achieving a certain degree of likeness. To start with, the two portraits must be placed in relation to each other in the space available on the coin.

At the same time, the portraits must be so large that they are as distinct as possible. One place where I have had artistic freedom of interpretation has been at the bottom of the coin where the portraits are cut off. I have chosen to give them a common base to symbolise that they are a couple."

The wedding coin is Karin Lorentzen's second coin. Her first one was the thematic coin with Børsen's dragon spire that was issued in 2003. It is no secret that she found it more difficult to design the wedding coin than the Børsen coin, but it was worth the effort.

Karin Lorentzen graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. From 1991-96 she trained as a classical sculptor in Århus and Paris. Karin Lorentzen has exhibited at the Charlottenborg Autumn Exhibition and Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, among other places.

When she was a guest exhibitor of Kammeraterne at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, her work was given an award by the Danish Arts Foundation. In 2004 she, inter alia, exhibited in connection with the 250th anniversary of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.