Vienna

Distance view of Vienna
Steel engraving by C. Reiss, around 1840
(StadtMuseum Bonn)

Wien - Ansicht gegen die Carlskirche vom Gebäude im Paradiesgarten
Vienna - View towards St. Charles’ Church
Steel engraving based on a drawing by F. Weigl taken from „Kürzesten Wegweiser in Wien“ (Shortest guide in Vienna), 1838, one of the four side printings of an engraved city map from the year, Robert Schumann arrived in Vienna.
(StadtMuseum Bonn)

Wien – Ansicht der Stadt von der Terrasse vor dem Fürstl. Schwarzenbergschen Gartenpallaste
Vienna – View of the city from the terrace of Palais Schwarzenberg
Steel engraving base on a drawing by F. Weigl taken from „Kürzesten Wegweiser in Wien“, 1838, one of the four side printings of an engraved city map from the year, Robert Schumann arrived in Vienna. (StadtMuseum Bonn)

Wien vom Wege zur Gloriette in Schönbrunn
Vienna from the way to the Gloriette in Schönbrunn
Steel engraving base on a drawing by F. Weigl taken from „Kürzesten Wegweiser in Wien“, 1838, one of the four side printings of an engraved city map from the year, Robert Schumann arrived in Vienna.
(StadtMuseum Bonn)

After the striking success of his clandestine fiancée Clara Wieck as concert pianist in Vienna in 1837, Robert Schumann hoped to find a new place of publishing for his journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. Friedrich Wieck allegedly agreed on the marriage of Schumann with his daughter, under the conditions that Schumann finds somewhere else a possibility to earn his living and the couple leaves Leipzig. He moved into an appartment in the still existing house in Schönlaterngasse 7a. Despite good receptions and establishing promising contacts, the chances of success fail to appear.