# Self-Portrait

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/self-portrait-r778080ed0fdda7>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [DANNECKER, Heinrich](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Plaster, painted bronze, height 74,5 cm

## Commentary

In the south of Germany, it was principally Dannecker of Stuttgart who proved capable of matching the mastery of the great Prussian sculptors. He saw himself in his self-portrait vigorous and self-assured, gazing into the distance as a free, independent artist living a life of his own making. There is a noticeably strong resemblance between it and the famous bust of Schiller \(c. 1794\), in which Dannecker reproduced the idealized image of the free artist.

## Related artworks

- [Ariadne on the Panther \(front and back views\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/ariadne-on-the-panther-front-and-back-views-r9bf6bcf4285a2a>)
- [Ariadne on the Panther \(front view\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/ariadne-on-the-panther-front-view-r9aa01abe9cb7c8>)
- [Ariadne on the Panther](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/ariadne-on-the-panther-ra1bc79dfdbd450>)
- [Ariadne on the Panther \(rear view\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/ariadne-on-the-panther-rear-view-rb295250f9e3a4a>)
- [Bust of Schiller \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/bust-of-schiller-detail-re93d6a5289069d>)
- [Bust of Schiller](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/bust-of-schiller-rf61b5514c4214b>)
- [Cupid and Psyche](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dannecker-heinrich-r214b3c071d1183/cupid-and-psyche-rf17dd8ee5bc3af>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)