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| Date | Events | Whereabouts | Works |
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| 15.10.1822 | Peter Malling recommends H.W. Bissen in a letter to Thorvaldsen. | ||
| 2.6.1823 | Christian (8.) Frederik recommends H.W. Bissen to Thorvaldsen. | ||
| Not earlier than 25.9.1824 - not later than 10.10.1824 | H.W. Bissen arrives in Rome and visits Thorvaldsen. | ||
| 24.12.1824 |
Danes in Rome celebrate Christmas Eve together. Present are Just Mathias Thiele, Hermann Ernst Freund, Hans Harder, Johan Christian Fick, Andreas Ludvig Koop, N.L. Høyen, H.W. Bissen, Jørgen Jørgensen, Ludvig Bødtcher, Ernst Meyer, F.C. Hillerup and Hans Christian Holten. Thorvaldsen is not there. A song by Bødtcher is sung, and Meyer portrays the company in an etching. |
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| April 1825 | Farewell party for Just Mathias Thiele and Hans Christian Holten, attended by Thorvaldsen, Hermann Ernst Freund, H.W. Bissen, Joseph Hermann, Ludvig Bødtcher, and others. The party ends with a nocturnal visit to the Roman Forum and the Colosseum. The party was painted by Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau. | ||
| 1826 - 1827 | Portrayed in a pencil sketch by H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 24.12.1826 | Christmas Eve is celebrated by Danes in Rome in Thorvaldsen’s and Hauch’s rooms in Casa Buti. At least 19 people are present, among them Bissen, Freund, Thorlacius, Abrahams, Schmidt, Bødtcher, Koop. Antique gems from Thorvaldsen’s collection are raffled off as presents. A comedy by Abrahams is performed. Songs by Hauch and Bødtcher are sung. | ||
| 31.12.1826 | New Year’s Eve is celebrated by Danes and others in Rome in Thorvaldsen’s rooms. Among those present are: Bissen, Freund, Thorlacius, Abrahams, Schmidt, Bødtcher, Koop, Hauch, the Buti family, Senff, Wolff, Trentanove. Act 2 of Holberg’s Jacob von Thyboe is performed. | ||
| November 1827 - June 1831 | Line drawings for engravings of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures are executed by H.W. Bissen and Dietrich Wilhelm Lindau. The engravings are for J.M. Thiele’s biography of Thorvaldsen. | ||
| Not earlier than 1830 | Napoleon Bonaparte, A732, finished under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| Not earlier than 16.1.1830 | H.W. Bissen resumes work for Thorvaldsen after an illness. | ||
| 18.1.1830 | Receives a written request from H.W. Bissen for the loan of the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik to be executed in marble (cf. A753 og A197), commissioned by Joseph Hambro. | ||
| 22.1.1830 | Leaves Rome bound for Munich in the company of the Prussian count, jurist, and diplomat Karl von Voß-Buch. | ||
| 29.1.1831 | Jonas Collin is in charge of commissioning a portrait bust of Thorvaldsen, executed by H.W. Bissen. | ||
| Begun 23.3.1831 - completed 13.1.1832 | Bust of Thorvaldsen, G119, is executed by H.W. Bissen. | ||
| Not earlier than 8.8.1832 | Thorvaldsen requests and receives study material on Johann Gutenberg for the execution of the Gutenberg monument, cf. A114, A115, A116. | ||
| 6.4.1833 | Recommends H.W. Bissen for the execution of the frieze for Christiansborg Palace, cf. the later Ceres og Bacchus (burned 1884). | ||
| Begun summer 1833 - completed 28.6.1834 | The monument Johann Gutenberg, A114, is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision. | ||
| Not later than August 1833 | Sketches of clay models of the monument Johann Gutenberg, A114 are sent to the Gutenberg Commission. | ||
| Autumn 1833 | Sketch of The Invention of the Printing Press, A118 (preparatory work for A116, executed by H.W. Bissen). Part of the Gutenberg Monument, A114. | ||
| Autumn 1833 - 28.6.1834 | The Invention of the Printing Press, A116 is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision. Part of the Gutenberg Monument, A114. | ||
| Autumn 1833 - 28.6.1834 | The Invention of the Movable Types, A115 is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision. Part of the Gutenberg Monument, A114. | ||
| 6.12.1833 | Visits H.C. Andersen, who reads his Agnete and the Merman. Also present are H.W. Bissen, Fritz Petzholdt, Andreas Ludvig Koop and Henrik Hertz. | ||
| Begun 3.2.1834 - completed 28.6.1834 | The statue for the monument Johann Gutenberg, A114. Clay model for the plaster cast, cf. A117 is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision. | ||
| 2.8.1834 | H.W. Bissen leaves Rome. | ||
| Not earlier than 3.12.1839 - beginning of January 1840 | Frederik 6., A141. | ||
| 9.10.1841 | H.W. Bissen and his family arrive in Rom. | ||
| Not earlier than 10.10.1841 | Thorvaldsen and Christine Stampe show Emilie Bissen, née Møller, (married to H.W. Bissen) round Rome. | ||
| 1843 | Hercules, A15, preparatory work for A14. | ||
| 1843 | Minerva, A17. | ||
| 1843 | Nemesis, A19. | ||
| 1843 | Aesculapius, A20. | ||
| 16.3.1843 | The College of Arms reminds Thorvaldsen of the request for a draft of his coat of arms. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 31.3.1844 - 18.9.1848 | Victoria, executed by H.W. Bissen and placed on the roof of Thorvaldsen’s museum, cf. A48. | ||
| Presumably 1845 - 1846 | Minerva, cf. A17, executed under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 19.6.1845 | Friedrich Wilhelm 4. commissions a marble copy of one of Thorvaldsen’s works, A602, A29, or A32, from H.W. Bissen. It is not known whether the work was carried out. | ||
| Presumably not later than 1846 | Nemesis, cf. A19, executed under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1846 - 1862 | Jason with the Golden Fleece, (formerly A51) executed by Brynjulf Larsen Bergslien under the supervision of H.W. Bissen after A52. Today at the Copenhagen City Hall. | ||
| Presumably not later than 1847 | Aesculapius, cf. A20, executed under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1847 | Conradin (executed by the Greman sculptor Peter Schöpf (1804-1875) after A150) is erected in Santa Maria del Carmine, Naples. | ||
| Summer 1849 - spring 1850 | Frederik 6., cf. A859, marble copy carved by H.W. Bissen, commissioned by A.W. Moltke, Bregentved. | ||
| Completed 1856 | Horace Vernet, A253, completed in Copenhagen by H.W. Bissen after A254. | ||
| Completed 1858 | Marianna Florenzi, A727, carved under the supervision of H.W. Bissen after A278. | ||
| 1859 | Bertel Thorvaldsen with Hope, A771, carved by H.W. Bissen after A162. | ||
| 1859 | The Goddess of Hope, A46, carved by H.W. Bissen after A47. | ||
| Completed 1861 | Vulcan, A8, carved by Brynjulf Larsen Bergslien after A9 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. The carving was commenced in Rome around April 1838. | ||
| 1861 | Cupid and Psyche, A27, carved by Georg Christian Freund after A28 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| Completed 1862 | Mars and Cupid, A6, carved by Brynjulf Larsen Bergslien after A7 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1863 | Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja, A166, carved by C.C. Olsen after A167 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1864 | The Graces with Cupid’s Arrow, and Cupid with the Lyre, A31, carved by Georg Christian Freund after A32 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1864 | The Fates, A365, carved by C.C. Olsen after A366 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1865 | Alexander the Great Sets Fire to Persepolis, A514, carved by Brynjulf Larsen Bergslien and C.C. Olsen after A515 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1865 | Briseis and Achilles, A489, carved by Georg Christian Freund after A490 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1866 | Georgiana Elizabeth Russell, A773, carved by Georg Christian Freund after A173 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1867 - 1870 | Hector and Andromache, A776, carved by H.W. Bissen and Vilhelm Bissen after A501. | ||
| 1868 | Hector with Paris and Helen, A774, carved by Georg Christian Freund after A499 under the supervision of H.W. Bissen. | ||
| 1886 - 1888 | Wlodzimierz Potocki, A794, carved by Vilhelm Bissen after A155. |