- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Kierkegaard never had himself
photographed—or daguerreotyped, as it was called in those days. Copenhagen was introduced to the
technology in the early 1840s, when a Viennese portrait painter opened a shop on Bredgade where,
upon payment of eight rixdollars, a person could be immortalized in fifteen seconds. Niels Christian
Kierkegaard, who had studied at the Academy of Art, was a distant cousin of Søren Aabye and thus
had opportunity to make this drawing of his relative, who would later become so famous. The lines in
this profile drawing from January 1838 are very full of feeling. There is a certain dreamy quality, but
also something aristocratic, about this youth who has clearly struck a pose.
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