Artistic Environment in Copenhagen
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Hans Hansen
Omnes
Hansen has read a review of Thorvaldsen’s prize-winning relief Peter and John Healing a Lame Man,...
C.D. Fritzsch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fritzsch sends his warm regards and hopes to join Thorvaldsen in Rome soon. Two of Fritzsch’s flo...
Mathias Henrichsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mathias Henrichsen sends his regards and reports on friends in Copenhagen. He hopes to become a t...
Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
C.D. Fritzsch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fritzsch is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome. He himself plans to leave soon on a grant...
Jørgen West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He relates news of family and friends ...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s parents are delighted with the latest letter from their son, especially because a f...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard relates that some people in Copenhagen have accused Thorvaldsen of being lazy in Rome,...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received a letter from Thorvaldsen as rumours in Copenhagen...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that the last instalment of his travelling grant has been sent to ...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen reproaches his son strongly for not returning to Copenhagen.
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley informs Thorvaldsen about his illness. He has to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. ...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is not sure if Thorvaldsen received his last letter and writes more or less the same thin...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Prime Minister Christian Ditlev Reventlow is considering having sculptures for the new Christians...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
Gustav Stanley
C.F.F. Stanley
Gustav Stanley sends news from Copenhagen about Christiansborg Palace and the Academy of Fine Art...
C.F. Stanley
C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund writes that he has arrived safely in Copenhagen. He explains that a written authorization is...
Hans West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West writes about political and economic conditions in Denmark and the rest of Europe. He describ...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An attempt to persuade Thorvaldsen to visit Denmark. Information about life at home and greetings...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...
Peder Friis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friis, a friend of Thorvaldsen’s youth, complains teasingly that he has not heard from Thorvaldse...
Lauritz Kruse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...
Jørgen Koch
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Song for Thorvaldsen in Borup’s Society, Copenhagen.
M.F. Liebenberg, Adam Oehlenschläger, Knud Lyne Rahbek
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
Christian Frederik has considered to interrupt his grand tour of Europe temporarily in order to g...
P.O. Brøndsted
Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted is happy that Thorvaldsen’s company has pleased the Aagaard family. He thanks them for ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6.
Thorvaldsen suggests a drastic restructuring and relocation of the Royal Collection of Paintings,...
Christian Horneman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Horneman is pleased to have met Thorvaldsen at last and is grateful that the sculptor is willing ...
Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
The Prince has passed on C.F. Hansen’s proposal for work that Hermann Ernst Freund can execute fo...
C.F. Høyer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Høyer sends Thorvaldsen a selection of his own writings related to the ongoing dispute about Nors...
B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
B.S. Ingemann writes that Thorvaldsenis missed in Denmark. He tells him that the painter Andreas ...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dahl asks Thorvaldsen to find work for Carl Wagner and Ernst Oehme, who are coming to Rome. He al...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits C.W. Eckersberg, enjoys his paintings, and sees his casts of Thorvaldsen’s portrait ...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A warm greeting from Copenhagen, which Thorvaldsen acknowledges by sending Eckersberg’s bust, A78...
Christian Horneman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the Danish architect Ole Jørgen Schmidt, who is going to Italy. Horneman’...
Ole Jørgen Schmidt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Carsten Hauch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hauch is grateful to Thorvaldsen for his friendship in Rome. He has written a drama which he is g...
N.C.L. Abrahams
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abrahams makes sarcastic remarks about the lack of real news from Copenhagen; the marriage betwee...
Christian Horneman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hornemann reports the latest gossip from the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and about their m...
N.C.L. Abrahams
De danske Romere
Song by Abrahams on the occasion of the first celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday in the ...
N.C.L. Abrahams
De danske Romere
Song by Abrahams on the occasion of the first celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday in the ...
F.C. Hillerup
Omnes
A drinking song in six stanzas in the form of an imaginary journey to Rome, written on the occasi...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s bust of Dahl, A229, has finally arrived in Dresden. Dahl writes that a crate with t...
Terkel Mørch
Omnes
Mørch writes about his youth in Borup’s Society and about Thorvaldsen’s visits to his...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen and was comforted and encouraged by him after having told him ab...
Christian Winther
Omnes
A song in nine stanzas in the form of an imaginary journey to Rome. You should drink wine and let...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Redaktørerne ved Dagen, Peder Malling
Omnes
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Ludvig Bødtcher
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bødtcher worries that Thorvaldsen has not received his latest letter, sent through the painter Al...
Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad
Omnes
Notice about Carl Gotthelf Küchler’s portrait of Thorvaldsen, exhibited at the Art Society in Cop...
Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad
Omnes
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H.C. Andersen, H.N. Clausen, N.F.S. Grundtvig, J.L. Heiberg, Henrik Hertz, H.P. Holst, Adam Oehlenschläger, Thomas Overskou
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Christian Peter Bianco Luno
Johan Christian Fick
Bill for printing expenses in connection with the celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday 8.3...
H. Käcker
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bill for the tuning of a piano for the Society of the Danish Romans.
Berlingske Bogtrykkeri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bill for printing songs written for the celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday in the ...
Johan Christian Fick
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bill for the full costs of the party of the Danish Romans 8.3.1839.
Johanne Luise Heiberg
Omnes
Heiberg discusses Thorvaldsen’s mental faculties and opposes the widespread idea that he is a naï...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele writes about H.W. Bissen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenha...
H.P. Holst
Christine Stampe, Elise Stampe, Bertel Thorvaldsen
A birthday song, in which the first toast is addressed to Thorvaldsen and the following two to Ch...
H.P. Holst
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Poster with a humorous advertisement for a humorous play at the ”unroyal theatre” with the full c...
Bolette Puggaard
Gottlieb Bindesbøll
Bolette Puggaard invites Bindesbøll to dinner and thanks him for his visit on the evening of Thor...
Heinrich Buntzen
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Buntzen asks for the remaining payment for the painting Danish Landscape, B204, which Thorvaldsen...