Hvem var Olaf Malm? Er det levende modeller bak denne figuren i romanen Fra Piazza del Popolo av Vilhelm Bergsøe?

• Authors: Åse Markussen

Abstracts

EN

Based on the Nordic sculptor community in Rome around 1860, the article discusses candidates that served as inspiration for the fictional Olaf Malm from Telemark, the protagonist in the chapter “Malms historie” in Vilhelm Bergsøe’s key novel Fra Piazza del Popolo (1866). Some of the clues in the text are Malm’s sculptural works. A study of different sources and earlier research together with the candidates’ personality, biography, and travel patterns point in a new direction and strengthen the probability of the Norwegian sculptor Hans Johnsen Budal as being the main model, whereas some traits hint at the Danish sculptor Herman W. Bissen. The candidacy of the sculptor Olaf Glosimodt, which is established in Norway, however, is no longer credible.

Keywords

EN

Nordic late classical sculpture; Rome; Key novel; Hans Johnsen Budal; Herman W. Bissen

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Studia Scandinavica
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 25
• Pages: 33-50

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Åse Markussen

Identifiers

DOI

10.26881/ss.2021.25.02

Biblioteka Nauki

22593247