IDENTITY
Der Wirthin Töchterlein
Literature
Work Summary
A ballad in which a condemned young man is led past an inn and asks to see the innkeeper's daughter once more before his execution. The encounter turns a compact narrative of crime and punishment into a scene of love, pity and approaching death.
Evidence Summary
The poem belongs to the German romantic material he repeatedly preserved.
Documented text-image association, though the photographed artwork itself is unidentified.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Ludwig Uhland
Work
Der Wirthin Töchterlein
Years / Period
1873–1877
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied, Discussed / Commented On
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
1873–1877 — Letters 14, 126 / poetry-album context
Discussed / Commented On · Known / copied / associated with image
Van Gogh explicitly says he knows the work and finds the associated photograph very beautiful; the poem also appears in his poetry-album context.
Response: The poem belongs to the German romantic material he repeatedly preserved.
Connection: Documented text-image association, though the photographed artwork itself is unidentified.
Related Research Nodes
Study Subject
Themes
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