It also makes him a rare outlier among the immediate rush of memoirs and anecdotes in the years after Fritz' death.
True, I hadn't picked up on that little detail in the sea of Fritz criticism out there. ;)
And no, despite the plethora of Keiths in Fritz' life, I don't think there's a confusion here. The rank and the responsibilities all fit with the one and only Peter and no one else.
As I noted elsewhere, there is a Lt. Col. Keith in Fritz's circle at this time, and he married Suhm's daughter, and we know nothing about his interests or lack thereof in the visual arts. The Academy and Tiergarten connections are the only bit of evidence that make me lean toward Peter. But I want it to be Peter, so I hope so!
It is really marvelous how we've been able to flesh out Peter's post 1730 life and thus his personality over the last two years, when in biographies old and new he's pretty much just (foot)noted as "the other one".
I agree! And we still have yet to get those letters from the archive. :) (I hope they're actually from Peter; I am increasingly not placing 100% confidence in archival descriptions.)
Re: Manger, Knobelsdorff - and Peter Keith!
True, I hadn't picked up on that little detail in the sea of Fritz criticism out there. ;)
And no, despite the plethora of Keiths in Fritz' life, I don't think there's a confusion here. The rank and the responsibilities all fit with the one and only Peter and no one else.
As I noted elsewhere, there is a Lt. Col. Keith in Fritz's circle at this time, and he married Suhm's daughter, and we know nothing about his interests or lack thereof in the visual arts. The Academy and Tiergarten connections are the only bit of evidence that make me lean toward Peter. But I want it to be Peter, so I hope so!
It is really marvelous how we've been able to flesh out Peter's post 1730 life and thus his personality over the last two years, when in biographies old and new he's pretty much just (foot)noted as "the other one".
I agree! And we still have yet to get those letters from the archive. :) (I hope they're actually from Peter; I am increasingly not placing 100% confidence in archival descriptions.)