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| Date | Events | Whereabouts | Works |
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| Presumably 1844 | Buys Emil Andersen’s (1817-1845) painting The Good Samaritan, B195. | ||
| Not earlier than 1844 | The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, A340, carved by Georg Christian Freund after A341 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| January - February 1844 | The Genius of Peace and Freedom, A529. | ||
| 12.1.1844 | Visits the painter C.W. Eckersberg in the company of Christine Stampe and her sister Susette Schouw. | ||
| 20.1.1844 | Honorary member of the British and Foreign Institute in London. | ||
| 7.2.1844 | Probably attends J.F. Schouw’s birthday party with, amomg others, Christine Stampe. | ||
| 12.2.1844 | Gives Christine and Henrik Stampe a version of Melpomene for their wedding anniversary. | ||
| Middle of February 1844 | The Genius of Poetry, A527. | ||
| 26.2.1844 | Attends an artists’ masquerade, which is held in a theatre in Lille Kannikestræde 14, Copenhagen. | ||
| 5.3.1844 | Christine Stampe’s sister Susette Schouw dies. | ||
| 8.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated quietly. Sees Mozart’s Don Giovanni. | ||
| Completed 8.3.1844 | The Genius of Sculpture, A523. | ||
| 18.3.1844 | Italian flower girl, C1035. | ||
| 20.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen suffers from chest pain. | ||
| 21.3.1844 | The Genius of Sculpture, A524, chalk sketch on slate. | ||
| 22.3.1844 |
Dinner at Christine Stampe’s, with Julia Raben-Levetzau (1808-1888) and others. Followed by a concert in The Cathedral of Our Lady with the students’ choral society. |
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| 23.3.1844 | N.L. Høyen delivers his famous lecture On the Conditions for the Development of a National Art in Scandinavia in the Scandinavian Society in Copenhagen. Thorvaldsen is mentioned as a particularly Nordic artist. A song by H.P. Holst is sung in the sculptor’s honour, and he is toasted in absentia. | ||
| 23.3.1844 | Visits Ernst Meyer accompanied by Christine Stampe. Meets Gottlieb Bindesbøll at the museum. Then visits Louise Augusta Müller (1778-1852). | ||
| 23.3.1844 | Goes to meet the Crown Prince Frederik (7.), but he is not at home. | ||
| 23.3.1844 | Dinner at the home of A.C. Kierulff’s. Jørgen Koch accompanies Thorvaldsen home. | ||
| Not later than 24.3.1844 | Head of Martin Luther, Nysø79, preparatory work for A188. | ||
| 24.3.1844 | Martin Luther, A188, Thorvaldsen’s last work, not finished. | ||
| 24.3.1844 | Visits Martinus Rørbye with Christine Stampe. Sees Rørbye’s painting Harbour scene, Palermo, B287, which Thorvaldsen acquired. | ||
| 24.3.1844 | Dinner with Oehlenschläger, H.C. Andersen, Ernst Meyer, Constantin Hansen and others at Christine and Henrik Stampe. | ||
| 24.3.1844 | Happens to meet C.W. Eckersberg at 6pm in Kronprinsessegade. | ||
| 24.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen dies at 6.11 pm in the Royal Theatre during the 1st movement of the German composer Ferdinand Ries’ 6th symphony, – before the first performance of the play Griseldis by the Austrian poet and playwright Friedrich Halm (1806-1871). | ||
| 24.3.1844 | H.W. Bissen becomes one of the executors of Thorvaldsen’s estate. He executes and supervises the completion of Thorvaldsen’s unfinished works in marble. | ||
| 25.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen’s death mask, L668, is taken by Venanzio Orlandi. | ||
| 26.3.1844 | J.L. Lund and C.W. Eckersberg visit Thorvaldsen’s deathbed “in order to see [his] face once more”. | ||
| 26.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen’s body is examined postmortem. | ||
| 27.3.1844 | The preparation for the ceremonial hall of the Academy of Fine Arts at Charlottenborg for Thorvaldsen’s funeral begins. | ||
| 29.3.1844 | The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Fine Arts is prepared for Thorvaldsen’s funeral. The floor is covered in black, and the room is hung with black cloth. At noon Thorvaldsen’s dead body is placed in the hall. | ||
| 29.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen lies in state in the ceremonial hall of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. | ||
| 30.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen’s coffin is closed in the presence of among Crown Prins Frederik (7.) Christian, among others. Then the coffin is taken in monumental procession from Charlottenborg to the Church of Our Lady. | ||
| 30.3.1844 | Thorvaldsen’s funeral at the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen. | ||
| 31.3.1844 - 18.9.1848 | Victoria, executed by H.W. Bissen and placed on the roof of Thorvaldsen’s museum, cf. A48. | ||
| Presumably April 1844 | C.F. Wilckens is given Thorvaldsen’s Order of the Dannebrog by Christian 8. | ||
| 8.4.1844 | Memorial ceremony at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. | ||
| 9.4.1844 | Memorial ceremony at the Royal Theatre: Prologue by J.L. Heiberg, recited by Johanne Luise Heiberg, overture by J.P.E. Hartmann and Adam Oehlenschläger’s Hakon Jarl. | ||
| 15.4.1844 | in an audience with Christian 8., Adam Oehlenschläger recites a poem about Thorvaldsen. | ||
| 7.5.1844 | Commemorated in a ceremony in the masonic lodges Friedrich zur gekrönten Hoffnung and Zorobabel til Nordstjernen in Copenhagen. | ||
| 13.5.1844 | Memorial ceremony for Thorvaldsen in Slagelse art society. | ||
| 24.5.1844 | Memorial ceremony for Thorvaldsen in Studenterforeningen (The Students’ Association) in Copenhagen with music, poems, and speeches. The ceremony took place at the University. | ||
| 28.5. - 8.6.1844 | H.C. Andersen completes his En biografisk Skizze (A Biographical Sketch) of Thorvaldsen. It is published 30.12.1844 – 3.1.1845. | ||
| Summer 1844 | Thiele finds the greater part of Thorvaldsen’s letters, documents etc. in the basement of Casa Buti. | ||
| 1.6.1844 | Memorial ceremony in the Academy of Fine Art in Berlin. | ||
| Middle of June 1844 | Frederik Barfod’s anthology of Danish source texts on Thorvaldsen – Thorvaldsensk Album (A Thorvaldsen Album) is published. | ||
| 23.6.1844 | Memorial ceremony in the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. | ||
| 26.6.1844 | Lermodellen til Æskulap, jf. skitsen A20, styrter sammen i Thorvaldsens værksted. Andreas Kolberg var i gang med modelleringen. Tidligere – antagelig i december 1843 – var en arm faldet af modellen. | ||
| 6.10.1844 | Fregatten Gefion sejler fra Livorno lastet med Thorvaldsens værker og ejendele fra hans dødsbo. | ||
| 17.11.1844 | Fregatten Gefion ankommer til København med nogle af Thorvaldsens værker og ejendele. |