Some Pictures from Hölderlin's Life
Courtesy of Das Hölderlin-Archiv der Württembergischen-Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart; Deutsches Seminar Universität Tübingen; and the Hölderlin-Gesellschaft, Tübingen.
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View of Tübingen, 1819
Hölderlin Tower on the Neckar, where he lived 1807-1843
Hölderlin in 1786, age 16
Autograph manuscript with silhouette, 1790
Gouache portrait by F.K. Hiemer, 1792
Hölderlin in old age, about a year before his death.
Drawing by Luise Keller, 1842.