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Breuning family drinking tea

Reproduction of an anonymous silhouette, ca. 1792
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  • ca. 1792
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  • 2020-12-03
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  • islandora:3657
  • Breuning_silhouette
Notes
  • Exhibited: The Beethovens on the Rhine (2020). Exhibition text: Beethoven’s childhood friends Gottfried and Cäcilia Fischer remembered him as a serious and introverted child who was not overly sociable. Gottfried wrote: “Later one could not say that Ludwig cared much for companions or society. […] His happiest hours were those when he was free of all company, when his parents were all away and he was left alone by himself.” According to Wegeler, Beethoven learned the rules of social life and behavior in his teens from the Breuning family, who were wealthier and more cultured than the Beethovens and the Fischers. His time spent in the Breuning household prepared him for his life in Vienna, where he was introduced to wealthy patrons and soon built up a reputation as a performer in aristocratic salons. This silhouette shows the mother, Helene von Breuning flanked by her daughter Eleonore and brother-law Johann Lorenz von Breuning.
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  • This work may not be in the public domain and may be protected by copyright laws of the country of the copyright holder. The digital images attached to this record may be used for teaching or research purposes under the provisions of the fair-use statute of the copyright law of the United States. For further information see the Beethoven Center's website at https://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven/collection/library-materials/index.php

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