27.3.1812
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Herman Schubart
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
31.3.1812
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen looks well in spite of his severe pains. He is working on the frieze Alexander the Gr...
11.5.1812
Rauch’s portrait of Thorvaldsen, Dep.31, is praised and is very lifelike. He is going to send a c...
Sommer 1812
The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.
10.6.1812
Rauch sends the promised engravings of Thorvaldsen’s reliefs through Count von Schulenburg-Witzen...
24.8.1813
Sender Anna Maria Uhden
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria writes that she has not yet received news from him. She hopes that he will return to R...
23.9.1813
Recipient Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen has received the two letters from Anna Maria Uhden. Because of Jacqueline Schubart’s ...
Sandsynligvis 18.11.1813
Sender David Ferdinand Koreff
Koreff teases Thorvaldsen for not having written or sent the drawings he had promised. He asks th...
Efter 23.12.1813
Recipient Raffaele Stern
2.1.1814
Sender Ferdinando Mori
7.1.1814
Recipient Ludwig 1.
3.4.1816
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
20.6.1816
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
20.11.1816
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
1.8.1817
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt praises Thorvaldsen for his hard work and creativity in the execution of Alexander the G...
18.10.1817
Sender Wilhelm von Humboldt
Through his contacts, Humboldt tries to persuade the British Prince Regent to commission Alexande...
December 1817
Sender Lauritz Kruse
Recipient Omnes
A prospectus in which Kruse invites his fellow countrymen to contribute to the acquisition of Tho...
24.12.1817
Sender Friederike Brun
1818
Sender August Wilhelm Kephalides
The commentary for this guide is not available at the moment.
1.1.1818
Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...
Efter 1.1.1818
A prospectus in German in which Kruse invites his Danish-German fellow countrymen in Schleswig, H...
2.1.1818
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has finally received a commission for the marble version of the frieze Alexander the ...
14.3.1818
Sender Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Recipient Erik Gustaf Geijer
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
7.4.1818
Sender Christian 8.
For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
23.4.1818
Sender Peder Hjort
The commentary for this article is not available at the moment.
5.5.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Koch has not yet had time to talk to Thorvaldsen about The Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg Pa...
9.5.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
Thorvaldsen assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg...
Draft of a letter dated 9.5.1818.
13.6.1818
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
20.6.1818
Sender C.F. Hansen
Hansen is pleased that Frederik 6., in his letter dated 15.6.1818, has ordered the commission of ...
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
Frederik 6. commissions the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christiansborg Palace.
Copy of the letter dated 20.6.1818.
1.8.1818
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the commission for the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christi...
22.8.1818
Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...
27.8.1818
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
Antagelig kort efter 4.10.1818
Sender NN
Accounts of various professional and private expenses.
Efter 11.10.1818
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
12.10.1818
Knudtzon recommends the British architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt to Thorvaldsen. Knudtzon announces ...
14.4.1819
Sender Franz Grillparzer
The commentary for this diary entry is not available at the moment.
Juli 1819 - april 1822
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
Juli 1819 - december 1823
September 1819 - maj 1821
23.10.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
November 1819 - maj 1821
Accounts for work on the Alexander Frieze (Alexander’s chariot) by Gaëti, Marchetti, Scalpe...
3.12.1819
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
27.12.1819
An account of the meeting in Copenhagen on 24.11.1819, in which Thorvaldsen promised the Building...
16.1.1820
Sender Pietro Tenerani
11.3.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
25.5.1820
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
18.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place on 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen...
1821
Sender Sydney Morgan
Extract from Lady Morgan’s book Italy mentioning Thorvaldsen’s workshops.
24.1.1823
3.7.1824
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
29.1.1825
20.6.1825
Sender Moritz Oppenheim
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff
Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...
31.8.1826
Recipient Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
24.11.1826
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
25.11.1826
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
7.2.1827
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827. Extr...
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
17.3.1827
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
Sender Johan Gunder Adler
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is informed that the frigate which was to transport several of Thorvaldsen’s works t...
Concerning the way in which Thorvaldsen’s loan to Christian (8.) Frederik is to be paid bac...
10.4.1827
Sender Kirkebygningskommissionen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, Thorvaldsen is asked by the Building Commission for the Chur...
7.5.1827
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
8.5.1827
22.5.1827
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
9.6.1827
27.7.1827
Sender Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
20.10.1827
18.1.1828
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post
19.1.1828
Specification of Thorvaldsen’s expenses for storage, crates, and packing in connection with...
8.12.1828
27.2.1829
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
10.12.1829
Recipient Ernst Rietschel
16.3.1830
8.6.1830
Sender Peder Horrebow Haste
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Haste replies to a letter from Thiele requesting information about Thorvaldsen. He states that hi...
19.10.1830
22.10.1830
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten, Just Mathias Thiele
1.3.1831
Sender Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Recipient Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelssohn has seen George Gordon Byron, cf. A130, in clay during a visit to Thorvaldsen’s works...
19.11.1831
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dansk Litteratur-Tidende
23.11.1831
Sender Charles Monck
12.12.1831
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
16.6 og 19.6.1832
17.6.1832
Clarification of circumstances relating to the commissions for Christiansborg Palace and the Chur...
21.8.1832
Frederik 6. has approved C.F. Hansen’s drawings for the great hall and two adjoining apartments o...
23.10.1832
A follow-up to the letter of 21.8.1832, in which the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palac...
24.11.1832
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for two letters from the Building Commission for Christiansbo...
29.12.1832
Christian (8.) Frederik Is pleased that Thorvaldsen intends to come to Copenhagen in the spring o...
12.1.1833
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
26.2.1833
The corvette Galathea will arrive at Leghorn around 1.7.1833, and Thorvaldsen is asked to have th...
6.4.1833
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
16.5.1833
Thorvaldsen thanks Hansen for his letters in which he mentions the pleasure, expressed by many pe...
Før 8.8.1833
Recipient NN
List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
Second part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corv...