Schumann, 1844

Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), aged 34
Steel engraving by Auguste Hüssener, 1847, after a missing painting by Josepf Matthöus Aigner (1818–1886) of 1844
StadtMuseum Bonn

This sheet, furnished with a facsimile of Robert Schumann's signature, shows Robert Schumann wearing a fur-trimmed winter coat over a frock and waistcoat, which he had acquired in preparation for a journey to Russia he undertook together with Clara in 1844. Notwithstanding the thick coat, Schumann already looks distinctly more demure than a few years earlier.

(I.B. translated by Thomas Henninger)