Ludwig Simon, Theological Student

1816

Carl Philipp Fohr German, 1795-1818

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Title Ludwig Simon, Theological Student

Artwork Date 1816

Artist Carl Philipp Fohr

Life Dates 1795-1818

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brush and black ink on wove paper with gilt upper, right and lower edges

Dimensions Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (24.4 × 19.7 cm) Framed: 16 7/8 × 14 3/4 × 7/8 inches (42.9 × 37.5 × 2.2 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 50.17

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, bottom center: Bildnis eines zu Heidelberg studierenden Spanischen Grafen, | Zeichnung meines lieben Freundes Carl Fohr. Er fand seinen Tod in den Tiefen der Tiber | bei Ponte Molle zu Rom am Tage St. Petri 1818. Inscribed, in faint pencil, verso, lower left: [406]?

Provenance

Carl Hermann, Rome and Breslau

Raphael Schall (Breslau, Poland)

Adelbert Woelfl (Breslau, Poland)

Eduard Feige (Breslau, Poland)

Ernest Scheyer (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1950-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Scheyer, Ernst. "Aus Carl Fohrs Künstlerischer Hinterlassenschaft." Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher n.s. (1932): pp. 82-90.

Lohmeyer, Karl. Heidelberger Maler der Romantik. Heildelberg, 1935, pp. 248-49, no. 145.

Grote, Ludwig. Das Antlitz eines Jugendbundes Zeichnungen von Carl Philipp Fohr. Der Kunstbrief 15. Berlin, 1944, pp. 20-21, no. 9.

Scheyer, Ernst. "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections." The Art Quarterly 12, 3 (Summer 1949): pp. 231-256.

Jensen, Jens Christian. "Die beiden Zeichnungen aus Fohrs Heidelberger Freundeskreis." Heidelberger Fremdenblatt (March 1961): p. 10 (fig. 4).

Jensen, Jens Christian. Carl Philipp Fohr in Heidelberg und im Neckartal: Landschaften und Bildnisse. Edited and with an introduction by Georg Poensgen. Karlsruhe. 1968. pp. 36, 38, 40-44, 110, no. 46 (pl. 41).

Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 41-43, no. 15 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Carl Philipp Fohr, Ludwig Simon, Theological Student, 1816, pen and brush and black ink on wove paper with gilt upper, right and lower edges. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 50.17.