In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter XVI. Theodore Mommsen

THEODORE MOMMSEN 181 ing a man with a picture in his hands, said very gruffly, “I buy no pictures and I examine no pictures.” Suddenly he perceived that he had Harnack before him, and he changed his attitude and invited him to enter. Then he looked at the picture. * Marvel- lous,” said he, * where did you find it?” So Harnack told him that it was the work of Hollaender, who painted one half of the year and was a musician the other half. “It is a wonderful picture,” said Menzel, “ what is its history?” Harnack said that Hollaender saw Mommsen at work in the Vatican Library, and sat down and made the sketch in two hours. “ That just shows you,” said Menzel, *‘ how great we painters are. We walk the earth and do our work, and men do not realise nor appreciate how great we are. See,” said he, ‘* Mommsen is working with his heart and soul and with all his body, from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet. Look at that foot, how intensely it partakes of the labour of the hour! How great we painters are, and how little you all think of our greatness!” If Hollaender had heard the panegyric Menzel pronounced over his work, we feel sure he would never have parted with it for the paltry sum of one hundred marks; and yet one hundred marks was surely a good reward for the work of two hours.

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