"friedrich gottlieb klopstock", portrait, oil painting (?) 1792, knee-length to the right: klopstock sitting in a dark armchair in front of a neutral background, in a black housecoat and white, open shirt, short white hair only at his temples, chanting with his left hand, in his right hand a manuscript with the twelfth stanza of his 1748 ode "the farewell". Behind a curtain, in the shadow, is the bust of homer. Exhibited by the patriotic society on the occasion of klopstock's death in 1803, formerly in their possession, today museum of hamburg history, inv. 1950/19; cf. Gisela jaacks, faces and personalities, inventory catalog of the portrait collection in the museum of hamburg history i. , hamburg 1992, p. 205 books. Google. In hans schröder: lexicon of hamburg writers up to the present, vol. 4, hamburg 1866, no. 1964, klopstock, friedrich gottlieb, footnote: the following original paintings. . : "started in 1793, but not completed until 1803. Compare the list of the sixth exhibition of the patriotic society, may 1803, page 12, no. 40, and proceedings of the same society, volume 7, page 35. ". Object Type: painting. Medium: painting. Collection: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte.
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