Tidstavle over H.C. Andersens liv 1866-1844 1930 - 1938

This page of a handwritten notebook was made by Niels Larsen Stevns sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. It's filled with densely packed text in Danish. Just imagine Stevns hunched over his desk, pen in hand, carefully documenting dates, names, and locations. What kind of journey was he mapping out here? It seems like a personal, historical, or even imaginative exploration—maybe a little of all three. The script cascades across the yellowed page. It's like a dance of language and time. You can see the artist, so focused, marking each moment, each connection. The physical act of writing becomes a way of making sense of the world. What's so exciting is that Stevns’s timeline mirrors the efforts of so many painters, who are constantly refining and revisiting earlier ideas, adding layer upon layer of thought and experience. Artists are in an ongoing conversation with their predecessors, their contemporaries, and even their future selves. Each mark on the page is a gesture of inquiry, inviting us to ponder the mysteries of time and the human experience.