• Johann Jürgen Busch

  1758-1820

Friederike Brun

• Production Date

  1796

• Type of Work / Object

  Sculpture > Bust > Portrait Bust

• Location

  • Not on display

• Inventory Number

  G247

• Catalogue Number

  G247

• Catalogue Level / Collection

  Thorvaldsen's Collections > Collection of Sculptures (G)

Explanation

• Busch was one of the German artists with whom Thorvaldsen had links during his first years in Rome. However, he never achieved great fame and is best known for his copies of ancient sculptures. In 1796, he modelled a bust of Friederike Brun, who spent lengthy periods in Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where she established contacts with a large number of the leading artists and cultural figures in Europe. She was one of the first to write an extensive analysis of Thorvaldsen’s oeuvre, and at the country house of Sophienholm in Bagsværd she arranged literary and musical salons in the European style, some of them with her daughter Ida (portrait by Thorvaldsen, inv. no. A810) at the centre. The bust is deposited at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle.

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