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A fine danish late Empire secretaire, presumably
belonging to the danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard,
made of mahogany marquetry, fall front
with fitted interior, turned baluster shaped legs. c.
1835. H. 144 cm. W. 98 cm. d. 54 cm.
Provenance: The secretaire originally relates from
Ingeborg Warming, great-granddaughter of Henrik
Ferdinand Lund (1803-1875), director of the National
Bank, and Kierkegaard's brother-in-law through his
marriage to Kierkegaard's sister Petrea Severine Lund
(née Kierkegaard), who died in 1834. After the death
of Petrea Severine and Lund's subsequent remarriage,
Lund and Kierkegaard stayed friends and Lund's
children was among the main benefactors from the
auctions of Kierkegaard's estate.
BRUUN RASMUSSEN BREdgAdE AUcTION 822
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A secretaire plays a main part in Kierkegaard's most
famous work Enten/Eller (Either/Or) (1843) in which the
fictitious editor/publisher, Victor Eremita, finds the manuscript
for Enten/Eller (Either/Or) in a hidden drawer in
a secretaire bought from a second-hand dealer. From
Kierkegaard's contemporary Johannes C. Barth, who
made a brief visit to the philosophers home, we know that
Kierkegaard was in the possession of a secretaire. Scholars
has identified this secretary with a piece of furniture now
in the Kierkegaard collection in the Copenhagen Museum,
which can be traced directly back to the auction of the
Kierkegaard estate on April 2nd-3rd 1856. The piece of
furniture in the collections of the Copenhagen Museum
is, however, not a secretaire, but a writing desk and fits
poorly to the description in Enten/Eller (Either/Or).
Sold af Bruun Rasmussen auction 589 in 1993.
DKK 50,000 / € 6,700
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