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.

 

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