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Henric Schartau
The portrait is part of Lund University's art collection and hangs at the University Library UB1. The statue has been next to Lund Cathedral since 2003, both depict Henric Schartau with a ring in his left ear. The entire portrait of Henric Schartau↓
Some personal data
Henric Schartau lived from 1757 to 1825. The name Schartau was taken by his grandfather, the church pastor in Sörby Jöns Schartau (died 1754), after his birth parish Skartofta. This Skåne village is located about 30 kilometers east of Lund at the lake Vombsjön.
Henric Schartau was born in Malmö, became Master of Pholisophy in Lund in 1777, was ordained in 1780 in Kalmar and worked as a priest in Lund.
He was known as a good 'soulmate' and left a large number of sermons. After his death, about 1,000 of these have been published.
About the statue and its placement
The statue was inaugurated in 2003 and the placement was/is a bit controversial, which was then reported by he largest locla newspaper Sydsvenskan.
Read more about the starue↓, which is made by Peter Linde.
What does Henric Schartau tell us today?
Church people and theologians are good at symbols and symbolic acts. What do they want to say, by in 2003 placing a statue by Henric Schartau at the Cathedral in Lund?
The collection for the statue started in 1922 by Bishop Gottfrid Billing and was completed by the book printer Per-Håkan Ohlsson. A strech of 80 years.
The theologically uneducated author of this IDstory borrows a quote from the symposium held about Schartau in Lund 2003.
Why do we have this symposium today? Is it to find a confident leader in our spiritual situation? As I (Bo Ahlberg) see it, Schartau cannot play that role in any way. But of course he is worth studying!
Church strategy
The Swedish Church has a difficult task. They must formulate a strategy and encourage a practise, which a large group of people experience as relevant and reasonably contemporary. You can compare with almost any large organization with many having strong opinions.
Schartau and in particular his followers 'the Schartuans' took their religion with an inward-facing church seriousness, where the present was not the great challenge.
Maybe the statue should have been put in place in 1922 and it would have been a symbol at that time. Now it becomes more of a beautiful city decor, and can be said to honor the priests who have worked in the Cathedral and the Diocese.
The cathedral's new visitor center is now inaugurated and the visitors are many. Henric Schartau stands a little alone between the house bodies when the pedestrians do not make him company.
Henric Schartau
This portrait was painted when Henric Schartau was 40 years old. It is the model for the statue at the cathedral in Lund. Schartau probably had his ring in the ear, when he thought this would help against rheumatism. Something that only a few of today's earring carriers are old enough to suffer from.
The portrait hangs at the University Library UB1 and is painted by Martin David Roth, who has also made a portrait of the professor in practical medicine Eberhard Rosén-Rosenblad (IDstory). That portrait can be found at Biskopshuset (IDstory) in Lund.
Martin David Roth, 1756-1805, was born in Lund, studied at the Art Academy in Stockholm And was a student of Pilo. Award -winning portrait painter and drawing master at Lund University in 1783.
Henric Schartau got his revival in Ryssby church, outside Kalmar, at a lent service in 1778. He was ordained a priest in Kalmar, but wanted to come to Lund, where he applied for a position as a priest. There were 3 applicants and Schartau came in the third proposal room, but he was the only one who was unmarried and he offered to "consewrve the widow" - to marry the widow of his predecessor. In the 17th and 1700s, it was common for both priests and parish clerks to get their services if they could/wanted to genuinely their predecessors' wife. The church parish saved money, and the priest and the parish clerks were offered a shortcut.
Symposium book about Henric Schartau
There are several books about Henric Schartau, not to mention the approximately 10,000 printed pages of his posthumously published sermons. Here we will only briefly touch on the book published in 2005 from a symposium held in Lund in 2003..
The editor is the professor of theology Anders Jarlert↗. Among the contributions are Kjell-Åke Modéer's "Schartau and the Lawyers. Collaboration and Influence", Latin professor and Dominican priest Anders Piltz's "Henric Schartau and the Great Seriousness", and ethnologist Katarina Lewis's "Schartau's Footsteps: Mapping a Secularized Revival Landscape."
Henric Schartau is buried in Lund
His graveaite is in block 26 at Norra kyrkogården in Lund. Below is a picture of the cracked tombstone, which barely fits in its "metal shirt".
The stone has, among other things, a quote from Jeremiah 17:16 ..What my lips have spoken, it has been spoken before your face... The stone's quote is from an earlier translation than the one used here..
Henric Schartau
First, a text written by the artist Peter Linde. It was published in connection with the inauguration of the sculpture. Below it is a text about the sculpture by Jan Torsten Ahlstrand, at the time head of Skissernas museum (IDstory).
About the Schartau sculpture at the Cathdral
After studying Schartau's life story, I was very happy when I found a person there who stood tall for his absolute faith in the Word of God! Here was not what we so often encounter in today's secularized world, where nothing is truly sacred, everything can be changed a little here and a little there.
At the same time, I noted some words that his daughter is said to have uttered when talking about Chartauanism on the West Coast (north of Gothenburg): »Dad was definitely not a Chartauan!»
One has always only heard of the sectarian orientation and he is actually wrongly associated with this dogmatic attitude! He was a simple man who did not seek his own gain and position, neither within the church nor society. His only aspiration was to be a true and good teacher for his fellow men, and his Friday sermons had great significance for people even from afar, certainly not least because of his personal stature and his charismatic and bright radiance, despite his dark clothing. At the same time, he was no dreamer, but extremely pragmatic in his interpretation of the Word.
Therefore, I chose to portray him straightforward and simple and, by placing him here on his new small stage outside the church in the form of the plinth, let him continue his sermon on the importance of USING GOD'S WORD, that is, not only reading the Bible, but also making use of the Word in your life and realizing as much of it as you can - the double meaning of the text around the plinth.
Peter Linde
Saltsjöbaden September 6
"Peter Linde's statue of Henric Schartau (1757–1825)
With Peter Linde's portrait sculpture of Henric Schartau, Lund gets its third public statue. In 1853, Carl Gustaf Qvarnström's statue of Esaias Tegnér was inaugurated in Tegnérsplatsen, and in 1938 it was joined by Ansgar Almquist's portrait of the young Linnaeus in Petriplatsen.
AThe fact that the Schartau statue is located just south of Lund Cathedral is logical, because it was in the cathedral that Henric Schartau gathered large audiences with his sermons and his simple, popular preaching..
The proximity to the Tegnér statue on the other side of the cathedral is also significant, as Schartau was the spiritual 'director' of the famous Greek professor and poet.
It has been a long journey before the Schartau Statue was put in place. As early as the 1920s, money was raised for a monument in the form of a statue of Henric Schartau. 80 years later, it stands there south of Lunda Cathedral, sculpted by Peter Linde and cast in bronze in the autumn of 2002 by the country's leading art foundry, Bergmans in Enskede. The statue itself is 240 cm high and stands firmly on a round granite base 60 cm high and 120 cm in diameter, with an inscription in beautiful antique. Linde has designed his monument on the basis of simple, harmonious numerical ratios, on the proportions 1:2 and 1:4.
The image that the sculptor has given of the beloved preacher and spiritual leader is also harmonious. Peter Linde has read up on Schartau's writings and based his interpretation on the contemporary portraits that exist of the famous Lund theologian, including Anders Arfwidsson's engraving after Johan Holmbergsson's drawing of Schartau in full figure.
Peter Linde's Schartau is wrapped in a wide mantle that falls in calm deep folds, which correspond to the softly flowing hair. Inside the mantle he wears his priest's cassock. In his right hand he holds the Bible in a powerful grip, with his left he holds his mantle together. The statue of Schartau gives the impression of a youthful prelate, a man somewhere in his 35s and 40s. The figure has a calm, dignified stature, and the interplay between face and hands is extraordinarily well executed. Linde has masterfully succeeded in uniting the practical, matter-of-fact trait of Schartau with the deep spirituality that characterized his entire work. His face is as if illuminated from within.
It is sometimes said that statues do not fit into our enlightened age. This is a claim that is worth discussing. Some artists choose a middle ground in the form of an abstract monument as a tribute to the deceased, while others escape the problem by doing something completely different. Nevertheless, portrait statues are still erected around the world.
Man's need for role models and memorials is ipt-30inguishable. Sculptors such as K. G. Bejemark and Thomas Qvarsebo have sought to renew the ancient art of sculpture in a spiritual way. Peter Linde, who was born in Karlshamn in 1946, raised in Copenhagen and educated at the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts, stands firmly on the ground of tradition..
He combines solid artistic and craft training with great sensitivity and the ability to empathize with the essence of the depicted. This applies to both his statues of Karin Boye, in Gothenburg and Huddinge respectively, as well as his statue of Moa Martinsson in Norrköping, and now of Henric Schartau in Lund. May the architect who is finally commissioned to design the new visitor center south of the cathedral reflect on the importance of a beautiful interaction between buildings and sculpture in this extremely sensitive old Lund environment!"
Jan Torsten Ahlstrand
Museum director, Skissernas Museum, Lund
The texts above, in Swedish, and some words on Schartau. Pdf. This Pdf was originally published at the Cathedral's homepage at the time when this IDstory was published.
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