17.1.-14.2.1797
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
6.3.1797
Sender Ernst Morace
Recipient Giuseppe Carnesecca
Letter of recommendation for Thorvaldsen from E. Morace in Naples to Giuseppe Carnesecca in Rome.
3.12.1799
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
24.10.1800
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen regrets that his report to the Royal Academy has been delayed. He would have liked to...
1804-1806
Sender Maria Zoëga
Maria Zoëga asks Thorvaldsen why he avoids her to the extent of not wanting to appear at his wind...
24.4.1804
Recipient Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen is very grateful for the grant and asks that his deepest gratitude may be conveyed to...
2.11.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
30.11.1804
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late reply and informs Schubart that he is finishing Bacchus, A2. ...
12.7.1810
Sender Wilhelm von Huth
Huth writes that he has taken poison for fear of an unhappy future. He asks Thorvaldsen to comfor...
22.5.1811
Sender Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, C.R.W. Wiedemann
C.R.W. Wiedemann asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to his niece Auguste Böhmer, A700-A703. T...
15.1.1812
Sender Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
19.11.1814
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Recipient J.F. Clemens
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
22.6.1816
Sender Christian Heigelin
Heigelin supports his nephew William Heigelin’s recommendation of the Italian apprentice sc...
Sender Wilhelm Heigelin
Recommendation of the Italian apprentice sculptor Antonio Calí.
1817
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Recipient Omnes
1818
25.5.1818
1.10.1818
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
1819
28.5.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
Juli-oktober 1819
Sender J.L. Lund
The travel account of J.L. Lund for the journey from Rome to Copenhagen July-October 1819.
6.7.1819
Thorvaldsen’s passport for the journey from Rome to Copenhagen July-October 1819 with permissions...
22.8.1819
Sender Johann Baptist Bertram
Recipient Sulpiz Boisserée
Thorvaldsen has spent a week in Stuttgart with J.L. Lund in order to study the collection of art ...
26.8.1819
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has visited Stuttgart, but that is all Caroline von Humboldt knows about his journey....
Sender Redaktørerne ved Leipziger Zeitung
Newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Stuttgart.
3.9.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Prager Zeitung
A newspaper informs that Thorvaldsen has left Stuttgart.
Antagelig 1820
Sender Sulpiz Boisserée
Proposal for a monument to J.W. Goethe on the occasion of his seventieth birthday: a colossal bus...
18.1.1820
17.2.1820
Sender Friederike Brun, Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
11.3.1820
15.6.1820
18.6.1820
On the occasion of Goethe’s seventieth birthday, Boisserée told Thorvaldsen about his plans for a...
10.8.1820
7.9.1820
5.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
29.10.1820
Boisserée writes that he cannot meet Thorvaldsen in Munich as he is in Paris in connection with h...
6.11.1820
17.12.1820
28.12.1820
A printed notice on the collapse of the floor in Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
29.1.1821
7.5.1821
25.6.1821
17.7.1821
Sender Ludwig Mack
2.8.1821
25.10.1821
Sender Heinrich Hase
Article on Theodor von der Ropp’s art collection, comprising 10 works by Thorvaldsen.
5.11.1821
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt, Ludwig Schorn
19.11.1821
22.1.1822
Boisserée recommends the painter Karl Joseph Begas from Cologne, who has received a royal scholar...
6.2.1822
30.5.1822
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer. He acknowledges receipt of the first four deliveries ...
14.9.1822
18.9.1822
24.10.1823
Sender Ludwig Schorn
Schorn recommends three young German painters from Würtemberg, Gegenbaur, Gutekunst and Fuchs, wh...
6.12.1823
Sender Theodor Wagner
Recipient Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
20.5.1824
21.7.1824
28.8.1824
9.9.1824
1.12.1824
Sender Samuel Amsler
21.12.1824
Sender Maria Szymanowska
Note from Szymanowska saying that she has a rehearsal at the Palazzo Ruspoli the same day. She en...
5.2.1825
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. ...
5.10.1825
Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Thorvaldsen is used indirectly to reduce the price of works by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker.
17.4.1826
12.8.1826
Recipient NN
13.8.1826
Sender Johann Wilhelm Braun
1.10.1826
3.1.1827
Sender Ellis Cornelia Knight
11.1.1827
15.1.1827
2.2.1827
Sender Wilhelm 1.
In recognition of Thorvaldsen’s efforts and cooperation in connection with the completion of the ...
Efter 2.2.1827
Recipient Wilhelm 1.
Thorvaldsen has received the Commander’s Cross of Württemberg, N14, which has been presente...
1.5.1827
Sender Karl Viktor von Bonstetten
15.7.1827
16.7.1827
The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.
2.9.1827
Sandsynligvis 1828
A dedication from Dannecker to Thorvaldsen.
11.7.1828
Sender Christoph Friedrich Karl von Kölle
8.12.1828
Sandsynligvis primo 1829
Sender Louise von Panhuys
Panhuys invites Thorvaldsen to have dinner and to accompany her and her party on their torchlight...
8.1.1829
Sender Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
28.1.1829
12.2.1829
23.4.1829
4.6.1829
11.6.1829
29.6.1829
10.8.1829
26.11.1829
5.1.1830
30.1.1830
Sender Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
25.2.1830
12.3.1830
Sender Theodor von Sydow
13.5.1830
The members of the Association are delighted with the news that Thorvaldsen is favourably dispose...