Friends of Thorvaldsen's Youth
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
Thorvaldsens sends an excerpt from a poem by the poet Baggesen to Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
Thorvaldsen apologizes to Kurtzhals because he did not have the time to bid her farewell before s...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sophie Probsthayn
Thorvaldsen sends a verse of poetry as a New Year’s greeting.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
Song from Thorvaldsen to the newly-married couple Peter Hanning Hammer and Frederike Dorothea Ham...
Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Peter Hanning Hammer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Peter Hanning Hammer is grateful for his friendship with Thorvaldsen. He mentions that Bernhoft h...
Elias Johannes Svane von Støcken
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
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...
Peder Pavels
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Peder Pavels, the chaplain of the Thetis, sends his greetings and reports what has happened on th...
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 ...
Kunstakademiet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Draft letter from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informing Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolo...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen West
Thorvaldsen complains that he has not received any letter for a long time.
Jørgen West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen West asks what to do about the bust of Tyge Rothe, A225, which is in the care of Nicolai A...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley informs his good friend of his arrival in Naples. He has contracted an illness which prev...
Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Herman Schubart
Lundbye informs Schubart that C.F.F. Stanley has died. He reproduces his graveside speech and des...
Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lundbye writes to Thorvaldsen from Leghorn. He brings news about Danish friends there and regrets...
Olav Olavsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Olavsen recommends H.E. Freund to Thorvaldsen. He sends a ring with Freund in order to thank Thor...
Heinrich Steffens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Steffens reminds Thorvaldsen of their youth in the dramatic society, Borup’s Society. He recommen...
Borups Selskab
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Borup’s Society invites Thorvaldsen to attend a play followed by a dinner party.
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Song for Thorvaldsen in Borup’s Society, Copenhagen.
M.F. Liebenberg, Adam Oehlenschläger, Knud Lyne Rahbek
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Kamma Rahbek
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rahbek sends the journal Tilskueren to Thorvaldsen. She describes her devotion to the sculptor bu...
Peder Horrebow Haste
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...
Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lundbye thanks Thorvaldsen for his promise to perform a task for him in Italy. He asks Thorvaldse...
Peder Horrebow Haste, J.C. Riise
Omnes
Haste sends additions and corrections to Nicolay Fürst’s biography of Thorvaldsen. Haste writes a...
Niels Schønberg Kurtzhals
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kurtzhals recommends Ole Jørgen Schmidt to Thorvaldsen. He misses the sculptor and hopes that the...
Adresseavisen, Cathrine Elisabeth Kurtzhals, NN
Omnes
Niels Schønberg Kurtzhals’s obituary.
Adresseavisen, Cathrine Elisabeth Kurtzhals
Omnes
Kurtzhals expresses her gratitude for the kindness shown to her on the death of her husband.
Terkel Mørch
Omnes
Mørch writes about his youth in Borup’s Society and about Thorvaldsen’s visits to his...
Juliane Marie Jessen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Finnur Magnússon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Magnússon, who is recuperating from an illness, writes that he presumes that Thorvaldsen has not ...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 7th part of 60 in all.
Heinrich Steffens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Steffens recollects with pleasure his encounter with Thorvaldsen in Copenhagen. He praises Thorva...
Heinrich Steffens
Christine Stampe
Steffens thanks Christine Stampe for her kindness and recalls his stay at Nysø with pleasure. He ...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 22th part of 60 in all.
Antoinette Thomasine Liebenberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Liebenberg informs Thorvaldsen that she has left Dresden with her daughters in order to meet him ...
Anna Helene Hall
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anne Helene Hall, who knows Thorvaldsen from her youth, asks the sculptor to donate a baptismal f...
L.C. Panum
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Panum offers Thorvaldsen two paintings by Jens Juel, View of the Little Belt from Hindsgavl, Fune...
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Just Mathias Thiele
List of the crew of the frigate Thetis on its expedition 1796-1797.