Abstract

This famous image shows Schiller (center) in the Bopserwald reciting his play to fellow students of the military academy he was attending at the time. The title reads: “Schiller’s robbers on their first stage.” His friends are (from left to right) Friedrich Wilhelm von Hoven, Victor Heideloff, the sculptor Johann Heinrich Dannecker (1758-1841), Christian Jakob Schlotterbeck, and Franz Joseph Kapf. Stuttgart’s collegiate church is visible in the background. Wood engraving by Paul Friedrich Thumann (1834-1908), after a sketch by Victor Heideloff (1757-1816), undated.

Friedrich Schiller Reciting Die Räuber in the Bopserwald (Undated Woodcut)

  • Paul Friedrich Thumann

Source

Source: bpk-Bildagentur, image number 10000389. For rights inquiries, please contact Art Resource at requests@artres.com (North America) or bpk-Bildagentur at kontakt@bpk-bildagentur.de (for all other countries).

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