Dorothea Mendelssohn-Veit-Schlegel - 1798

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Everybody enjoyed the lively conversations in the galleries; only Fichte, who knew little about art, was for once outside his comfort zone. A painter and family friend wrote to Charlotte Schiller from Dresden after bumping into the group in the ‘Germaldegalerie,’ knowing she always enjoyed gossip about them. . . .

Only Dorothera Veit was missing in Dresden. Although she had yet to meet August Wilhelm and Caroline Schelegel, Friedrich had failed to persuade his older sister to allow Dorethera to stay at her house. His sister had made the situation clear: her husband was part of the Saxon court, and under no circumstances could Friedrich conduct an affair with a married woman under her roof. The other reason was money, because on entering Dresden Dorethea would have had to pay a so-called ‘Jew-toll’ – a tax levied on Jews traveling from one German territory to the next. Not only was it expensive, it was insulting and humiliating as it was also imposed on livestock. Some twenty years earlier, Dorethea’s father, the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn had complained he had been tariffed ‘like a Polish ox’, on entering Dresden. . . . Page 176

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