Documents from/to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to/from others than Thorvaldsen

20.12.1830

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Mendelsohn writes about the enjoyable aspects of his life in Rome. These days, he does nothing af...

1.3.1831

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Mendelssohn has seen George Gordon Byron, cf. A130, in clay during a visit to Thorvaldsen’s works...

15.3.1831

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Mendelsohn has learnt something from Horace Vernet, which he thinks everyone could learn from him...

28.5.1831

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Fanny Hensel

Mendelssohn is amazed at Hegel’s assertion that German art is stone-dead when Goethe and Th...