The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander Simon
ABSTRACT This paper involves the psychoanalytic and iconological analysis of two paintings by the Romantic artist Carl Alexander Simon held at the Schlossmuseum in Weimar: Selbstbildnis mit Tirolerhut and Die Braut des Künstlers. Simon produced these paintings in 1830, almost 20 years before travell...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Published: |
Universidade de São Paulo
2023-03-01
|
| Series: | ARS |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-53202022000300528&lng=en&tlng=en |
| _version_ | 1827990649397313536 |
|---|---|
| author | Miguel Gaete |
| author_facet | Miguel Gaete |
| author_sort | Miguel Gaete |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | ABSTRACT This paper involves the psychoanalytic and iconological analysis of two paintings by the Romantic artist Carl Alexander Simon held at the Schlossmuseum in Weimar: Selbstbildnis mit Tirolerhut and Die Braut des Künstlers. Simon produced these paintings in 1830, almost 20 years before travelling to South America, where he continued his artistic career and carried out an ambitious colonisation scheme. This is the first study to scrutinise these paintings. This essay’s primary purpose is to unveil overlooked aspects of Simon’s works, determining the extent to which intricate personality traits began to emerge in these works. The central argument is that various features of these paintings are early instantiations of a messiah complex which will be determinant to understanding his colonising endeavour in Chile. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-10T00:38:44Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-a4749cb5a58c48d2a28d5de918c7300c |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2178-0447 |
| language | Portuguese |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-10T00:38:44Z |
| publishDate | 2023-03-01 |
| publisher | Universidade de São Paulo |
| record_format | Article |
| series | ARS |
| spelling | doaj.art-a4749cb5a58c48d2a28d5de918c7300c2023-03-14T07:33:56ZporUniversidade de São PauloARS2178-04472023-03-01204652857010.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars2022.202452The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander SimonMiguel Gaetehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-349XABSTRACT This paper involves the psychoanalytic and iconological analysis of two paintings by the Romantic artist Carl Alexander Simon held at the Schlossmuseum in Weimar: Selbstbildnis mit Tirolerhut and Die Braut des Künstlers. Simon produced these paintings in 1830, almost 20 years before travelling to South America, where he continued his artistic career and carried out an ambitious colonisation scheme. This is the first study to scrutinise these paintings. This essay’s primary purpose is to unveil overlooked aspects of Simon’s works, determining the extent to which intricate personality traits began to emerge in these works. The central argument is that various features of these paintings are early instantiations of a messiah complex which will be determinant to understanding his colonising endeavour in Chile.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-53202022000300528&lng=en&tlng=enGerman RomanticismPsychoanalysisIconologyLatin AmericaColonisation |
| spellingShingle | Miguel Gaete The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander Simon ARS German Romanticism Psychoanalysis Iconology Latin America Colonisation |
| title | The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander Simon |
| title_full | The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander Simon |
| title_fullStr | The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander Simon |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander Simon |
| title_short | The Leader of Time and the Shackled Bourgeois Lady: A Psychoanalytic and Iconological Analysis of Two Paintings by Carl Alexander Simon |
| title_sort | leader of time and the shackled bourgeois lady a psychoanalytic and iconological analysis of two paintings by carl alexander simon |
| topic | German Romanticism Psychoanalysis Iconology Latin America Colonisation |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-53202022000300528&lng=en&tlng=en |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT miguelgaete theleaderoftimeandtheshackledbourgeoisladyapsychoanalyticandiconologicalanalysisoftwopaintingsbycarlalexandersimon AT miguelgaete leaderoftimeandtheshackledbourgeoisladyapsychoanalyticandiconologicalanalysisoftwopaintingsbycarlalexandersimon |