Grand celebration in Thorvaldsen’s honour in the society “Die Zwanglosen” in Munich, attended by F.W.J. Schelling, and artists and scientists. Many poems to Thorvaldsen is read.

Primary sources

• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Friedrich Beck to Thorvaldsen.
• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Sebastian Franz von Daxenberger to Thorvaldsen.
• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Ernst Förster to Thorvaldsen.
• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Ernst Förster to Thorvaldsen.
• Poem and dedication dated 15.7.1841 from Rudolph Marggraff to Thorvaldsen.
• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Hans Ferdinand Massmann to Thorvaldsen.
• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Karl Friedrich Neumann to Thorvaldsen.
• [Ludwig Schorn]: ‘Aus dem Münchner Kunst- und Künstlerleben’, in: Kunstblatt, nr. 66, 19.8.1841, (reports on the event in detail).
• Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 132 (Stampe mentions the meeting with Schelling but not the party).
• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Friedrich Thiersch to Thorvaldsen and Schelling.
• Poem dated 15.7.1841 from Philipp Franz von Walther to Thorvaldsen and Schelling.

Further:

• Speech by F.W.J. Schelling to Thorvaldsen – only known from the report in Schorn, op. cit.
• Speech by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868) – only known from the report in Schorn, op. cit.
• Digt af Heinrich Wilhelm Stieglitz(?) (1801-1849) to Thorvaldsen – only known from the report in Schorn, op. cit.
• Speech by Carl Weichselbaumer (1791-1871) to Thorvaldsen – only known from the report in Schorn, op. cit.
• Speech or poem by Wolfgang Hocheder (17XX-efter 1855)(?) til Thorvaldsen – only known from the report in Schorn, op. cit.
• Poem by Friedrich Thiersch as a reply to the improvised poem by Philipp Franz von Walther – only known from the report in Schorn, op. cit.
• Speech by Franz von Pocci to Thorvaldsen – only known from the report in Schorn, op. cit.

Other references

• Thiele IV, p. 162-163 (parafrases Schorn’s report in Kunstblatt).
• Related Article: The Journey to Rome, May-September 1841

Last updated 10.10.2014