Word componist, schrijf geniale, onsterfelijke muziek en word bovendien als tegenhanger snel oud:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
een paar jaar voor zijn dood
En Ludwig van Beethoven zo rond 1815:
Het is bekend dat Beethoven ook snel verouderde. Aangezien Beethovens kwalen op die van Mozart leken zoals ingewandproblemen, punch of wijn drinken( wat overigens vrij normaal was in die tijd), slechte hygiene, wijn met lood gemengd, loden waterleidingen, workaholic enz.
Groetjes, Bas
Ik ben helaas dyslectisch als het om Engels gaat.
WIe kan een Nederlandse samenvatting geven van onderstaand tekstveld?
Vriendelijke groet,
BJvV
80 centimeters high and 62.5 cm wide painting is keeping the experts occupied since January. The question whether the painting being an authentic portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or not, excites the professional world and favorers of Mozart alike.
In a statement the director of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann harshly contradicts the director of the Stadtarchivs München, Dr. Richard Bauer:
"Dr. Richard Bauer, director of the Stadtarchivs München has doubts, that the identification of the painting by Johann Georg Edlinger exhibited at the Berliner Gemäldegalerie shows Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He rather believes to sees the merchant Joseph Anton Steiner from Munich in the picture, who from 1794 to 1803 was a member of the city’s outer council.
In this regard the Gemäldegalerie comments: Dr. Bauer bases his arguments on a file in the Münchner Stadtarchiv, which he has published not word by word but only in its general sense: hence, the widow of the last previous owner informed Karl Trautmann in 1929, a cultural researcher in Munich, that the portrait shows Joseph Anton Steiner and an that the (since than not provable) pendant shows his wife.
The reference to this file is the only positive argument in Bauer´s line of argumentation; as for the rest he confines his argumentation to uttering doubts on the methodological reliability or on the persuasive power of the arguments placed by the Berliner Gemäldegalerie.
One of his points of criticism is that the painting makes no reference to the profession of the person portrayed. Bauer fails to see that portraits in the later part of the 18th century in general refrained from using such characteristics – such as the many examples in the extensive oeuvre of Anton Graff, amply giving proof of this practice.
Moreover, according to Bauer it seems impossible that Edlinger was able to produce the painting during the few days of Mozart’s stay in Munich (October 29 to November 6, 1790) – the time available for sitting as a model for the painting was too short. But he misjudges the common practice use in portrait painting in this regard of just producing a drawing of the model to later develop the actual picture in the studio with all the time necessary.
Consequently, also the argument brought up by someone else against the identification, Mozart did not own a green coat, proves not to be sound: most probably the green coat belonged to the general equipment of the painter, bur not to the composer.
It remains a mere hypothesis whether an actually existing painting of Mozart in Munich – as Bauer expects – has been made accessible to everyone (and where?). There are several examples of images, that in spite of the popularity of the models remained concealed until their rediscovery. The same can be said in case of Bauer´s argumentation, such a picture would most probably also have been engraved: the existence of an engraving definitely secures the naming of the person portrayed – but the lacking of such a reproduction alone does make an identification impossible.
It has to be noted in favor of Bauer`s argument for the benefit of the identification of the painting of Joseph Anton Steiner that: it is strange, that this naming only occurred once, that is orally in 1929. Neither on behalf of the large exhibition at the Glaspalast in1906, a presentation of Bavarian art between 1800 and 1850, nor at the time of the sale of the picture in the year of 1934 was the picture signed in this name. Here the question concerning the validity of the file with Karl Trautmann`s statement definitely arises, whose publication is still expected."
No clairvoyant abilities are necessary to discover, that this dispute will soon find its continuation (with a comment from Munich?).
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