28.12.1804

Sender Herman Schubart

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...

31.12.1806

Sender C.F. Hansen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...

16.2.1807

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient C.F. Hansen

Thorvaldsen suggests subjects from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christiansborg Palace ...

16.2.1807

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient C.F. Hansen

Draft for letter: Thorvaldsen suggests motifs from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christ...

3.10.1815

Sender Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...

12.2.1818

Sender Stanisław Mokronowski

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski informs Thorvaldsen that permission has been granted by the Emperor Alexander I to er...

7.4.1818

Sender Dionisio Bulzo

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

At Thorvaldsen’s request, Bulzo explains the meaning of the subject for the relief which is...

22.12.1818

Sender Stanisław Mokronowski

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...

10.8.1820

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Sulpiz Boisserée

Thorvaldsen is flattered and accepts a commission to execute a frieze with bas-reliefs for a monu...

19.10.1820

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Stanisław Mokronowski

A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...

11.4.1826

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Stanisław Grabowski

Thorvaldsen deeply regrets that he has not been able to fulfill the terms of his contract for the...

5.10.1827

Sender Nicolas Louis Planat de la Faye

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Planat de la Faye tells Thorvaldsen that Duchess Augusta Amalia von Leuchtenberg is very pleased ...

13.12.1833

Sender Justin Ostrowski

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Ostrowski asks Thorvaldsen to create a monument to a 21-year-old man for the cathedral in Krakow....

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 ...

6.12.1837

Sender Verein für Schiller's Denkmal

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The chairman of the Association, Georg von Reinbeck, reports that the bas-reliefs for the Schille...

21.4.1838

Sender Goethe-kommissionen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

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

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...

Sandsynligvis sommeren 1842

Sender Marie Lehmann

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Marie Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen and hopes that he will remain in Rome until...