The Garden Room

This room is scantily furnished, as it also was during Rahbek’s day, as it was mainly used as a communicating room. Outside it there was Kamma Rahbek’s big, romantic garden with a pond, lawns and beautiful rare flowers. Hanging on the walls now there are portraits of some of the many personalities who visited the Rahbeks in Bakkehuset, including B.S. Ingemann, Bishop J.P. Mynster, the actor Michael Rosing and his wife and others.

Also of special interest is the portrait of Sophie Ørsted, whose maiden name was Oehlenschläger. This work is the only contemporary portrait of the beautiful, gifted Sophie Ørsted, who was regarded as a kind of ideal woman. She was the sister of Adam Oehlenschläger and grew up in Frederiksberg Castle, where their father was castle steward. Sophie was married to Anders Sandøe Ørsted, who was the brother of Hans Christian Ørsted, the discoverer of electro-magnetism. Among many others whom she knew was the poet Jens Baggesen. The oil painting was made by her cousin J.L. Lund, who was a professor in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and who was also responsible for works such as the Royal Theatre’s Acropolis Curtain.

Note also C.F. Tieck’s black chalk drawing of F.W.J. von Schelling. As a member of the Jena School, the German philosopher Schelling (1775-1854) was one of the most important Romantic philosophers of that time.

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