Portraits

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<font size="16">Caroline, original oil portrait by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein 1798 </font> <font size="14">(Otto Cramer Family Archives).</font> <font size="16">Tischbein began this and the color portrait of Auguste during a visit to Weimar and Jena in the spring of 1798, then finished them in Dessau. Wilhelm Scherer remarks that "the color of her eyes was blue, as we happen to read in one letter in which she calls herself the <i>blue-eyed Caroline.</i>"</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_caroline-waitz.jpg]
<font size="14">Reproduction of Tischbein's portrait of Caroline in Georg Waitz's 1871 edition (by August Weger). Wilhelm Scherer remarks: "A picture of Caroline herself delights us at the beginning of volume 2. A remarkable, wondrous countenance, albeit lacking regular beauty and with a rather unhandsome nose that is too broad and a mouth perhaps too large. But what <i>goodness</i> and <i>understanding</i> flash from her eyes, what <i>mischievousness</i> plays about her mouth, what <i>clarity</i> is discernable on her exposed forehead. The motto framing these features seems to be: <i>Frank and open...</i>"</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_caroline-schmid.jpg]
<font size="14">Reproduction in edition of Erich Schmidt 1913. Even Rudolf Haym had remarked concerning the original picture of 1871: "Indeed, we will not object should one or the other of our readers find that we resemble a bit <i>too </i>closely Odysseus bound to the mast, and that we, too, have been smitten by these intelligent, gentle eyes, the smiling mouth, and the generally charming features speaking to us from within this portrait." And Wilhelm Scherer acknowledged those who pointed out how "60 years after her death, Caroline was <i>still </i>able to turn the heads of certain German professors."</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_caroline-tischbein-bio.jpg]
<font size="16">Reproduction of J. F. A. Tischbein's portrait of Caroline in Adolf Stoll's 1923 biography of Tischbein.</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_caroline-gartenlaube.jpg]
<font size="16">Caroline, woodcut by Johann Carl Wilhelm Aarland, from the illustrated family periodical <i>Die Gartenlaube, </i>1871.</font> [img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_tischbein.jpg]Tischbein: Portrait of a Young Woman
<font size="14"><i>Not </i>Caroline, but rather Tischbein's 1798 oil portrait of a young woman in an Empire-style white dress. Formerly in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum und Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, it was indeed once identified as a portrait of Caroline. It represents the same ideal of natural, casual feminine beauty of the sort Tischbein portrayed in several portraits during his Dessau years, and includes several features virtually identical to those in Caroline's portrait.</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_silhouette.jpg]
<font size="16">Undated silhouette of Caroline as a young woman in Göttingen.</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_michaelisdamen2.jpg]
<font size="16">Undated silhouette of Caroline as a young woman in Göttingen (excerpt from collective portrait with her sister Luise and mother; see gallery 1763-1780).</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_bohmer-auguste-familienarchiv-otto-cramer.jpg]Auguste Böhmer (Otto Cramer Family Archives)
<font size="16">Auguste Böhmer, oil portrait by J. F. A. Tischbein 1798 </font> <font size="14">(Otto Cramer Family Archives).</font> <font size="16"> Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) remarks after Auguste's death in 1800: "Her fair complexion and slender figure probably presaged her early demise."</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_auguste-waitz.jpg]
<font size="16">Reproduction of J. F. A. Tischbein's portrait of Auguste in Georg Waitz's edition of 1871 (by August Weger). Wilhelm Scherer remarks: "Volume 1 is adorned by a picture of Auguste Böhmer exhibiting that particular element of 'delicate, inwardly directed femininity' attributed to her by her contemporaries."</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_auguste-schmidt.jpg]
<font size="16">Reproduction of J. F. A. Tischbein's portrait of Auguste Böhmer at the end of volume 1 of Erich Schmidt's 1913 edition. Friedrich Schlegel writes teasingly to Auguste in late 1798: "Why have you not written, you worldly inclined child, you? – Is that gratitude? . . . is that why Tischbein painted you with lowered eyes, that you might not answer me, that you might behave so ill toward me? "</font>[img src=http://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/flagallery/portraits/thumbs/thumbs_auguste-tischbein.jpg]
<font size="16">Reproduction of J. F. A. Tischbein's portrait of Auguste Böhmer in Adolf Stoll's 1923 biography of Tischbein.</font>