Height: 72.5 metres. Weight:1,800 tons. Price: EUR 27 mio. These are the hard facts of the huge sculpture, which the family of the late world famous Danish artist Robert Jacobsen and a number of private foundations and companies are ready to present to the city of Copenhagen, writes Berlingske Tidende.

The sculpture’s name is Store Robert and it was recently officially presented by “The Society of Creating Store Robert”, which is a group of business people and lovers of Robert Jacobsen’s art.

“Store Robert may become not only Copenhagen’s new landmark – but a landmark of Denmark and the Nordic countries,” says Frank Jensen, one ot the promotors of raising Store Robert.

Berlingske Tidende has written earlier that the sculpture is to be placed in the water outside the Port of Copenhagen and according to the plan little boats will shuttle between the harbour and the sculpture making it possible to get very close to Store Robert, which will be ready at the end of 2010.

The sculpture has been on the way for 20 years. Back in the 1980s Robert Jacobsen made a small model af the sculpture, which was intended a place at Langelinie at the harbour front.

A majority of Copenhagen City Council is in favour of Store Robert, and the promotors hope that the sculpture may be created at the Lindøværft (shipyard), where the main part of Robert Jacobsen’s larger works were made throughout the years.