Speaking of Kattes (as I usually am), a new development to which selenak alerted me, was that this painting has been confirmed by Martin von Katte to be of Hans Hermann and his half-sister Elisabeth Katharina. But what struck me was that Martin captioned it as set in the gardens at Wust (the family seat of Hans Heinrich's line).
Now, I could be wrong, but even if Hans Heinrich is currently stationed outside of Wust, which he usually is, it probably would be difficult to have outdoor concerts in the gardens in this small village of Wust and get your portrait painted if you were trying to keep your flute-playing secret from your father, the lord of Wust.
Which means, I think it's reasonable to conclude Hans Heinrich knew about his son's flute playing and was, at the very least, okay with it. Now that I know that Grandpa Wartensleben was the old-school Baroque guy who was responsible for most of Hans Hermann's raising, he may have bankrolled the university attendance and Grand Tour, so that doesn't necessarily reflect on Hans Hermann one way or the other. But if two of Hans Heinrich's children, one of whom isn't even descended from Hans Hermann's maternal grandfather Wartensleben, are getting painted in Hans Heinrich territory, that suggests to me that Roes is probably way off the mark in making Hans Heinrich opposed to flute-playing in Zeithain. I mean, aside from the question of whether it's narratively a good idea to work out your own issues with your father by giving every character a Bad Dad.
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Date: 2020-03-03 06:23 pm (UTC)Now, I could be wrong, but even if Hans Heinrich is currently stationed outside of Wust, which he usually is, it probably would be difficult to have outdoor concerts in the gardens in this small village of Wust and get your portrait painted if you were trying to keep your flute-playing secret from your father, the lord of Wust.
Which means, I think it's reasonable to conclude Hans Heinrich knew about his son's flute playing and was, at the very least, okay with it. Now that I know that Grandpa Wartensleben was the old-school Baroque guy who was responsible for most of Hans Hermann's raising, he may have bankrolled the university attendance and Grand Tour, so that doesn't necessarily reflect on Hans Hermann one way or the other. But if two of Hans Heinrich's children, one of whom isn't even descended from Hans Hermann's maternal grandfather Wartensleben, are getting painted in Hans Heinrich territory, that suggests to me that Roes is probably way off the mark in making Hans Heinrich opposed to flute-playing in Zeithain. I mean, aside from the question of whether it's narratively a good idea to work out your own issues with your father by giving every character a Bad Dad.