4.7.1837

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

A unanimous Goethe committee wants Thorvaldsen to execute a representation of J.W. Goethe for the...

21.7.1837

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Goethe-kommissionen

Thorvaldsen declares himself willing to execute a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However, he wants ...

21.7.1837

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Goethe-kommissionen

Draft letter. Thorvaldsen is ready to execute a model for a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However,...

9.9.1837

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commission to execute a model for a monument to ...

21.4.1838

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The members of the Committee are sorry to hear about Thorvaldsen’s illness from Karl von Kolb, bu...

21.4.1838

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Copy (abbreviated) of an earlier letter. Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commiss...

19.2.1839

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Goethe-kommissionen

Thorvaldsen regrets his late answer. He had intended to return to Rome after a brief stay in Cope...

7.9.1839

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The Committee was pleased to receive Thorvaldsen’s last letter, not least because it reassured th...

18.10.1839

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Goethe-kommissionen

The answer to the committee’s most recent letter has been delayed because Thorvaldsen wanted to b...

5.11.1839

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The Committee is pleased to accept Thorvaldsen’s proposal to execute the models for the Goethe mo...

16.4.1840

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The Committee is pleased to have received Thorvaldsen’s sketch of the statue for the Goethe monum...

26.5.1840

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Goethe-kommissionen

Thorvaldsen is pleased with the Committee’s positive reaction to his first sketch for the Goethem...

18.6.1840

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The Committee has received Thorvaldsen’s new sketch for the Goethe monument. They fully approve o...

10.12.1840

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Goethe-kommissionen

Thorvaldsen regrets that he has had to postpone his departure to Rome – and thus to Frankfurt – o...

12.12.1840

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Because of general dissatisfaction with the lack of progress in Thorvaldsen’s execution of the pl...