Iridescent collar

Friedrich Schiller with a Schiller collar, as portrayed by Anton Graff between 1786 and 1791. The name Schiller collar goes back to this portrait. The portrait is exhibited in the Kügelgenhaus in Dresden.

The Schiller collar is an open, wide shirt collar worn over the jacket collar , which was fashionable at the time of Friedrich Schiller . The association of this collar fashion with Friedrich Schiller came about due to the portrait of Anton Graff , which the latter made of Friedrich Schiller between 1786 and 1791. The portrait shows Friedrich Schiller with a matching shirt collar sitting at a table in a relatively casual pose. This portrait was often copied and was also widely used as a copper engraving , which resulted in the name being given to the Schiller collar in public.

The casual, open shirt collar contrasted with the tight necktie that was worn by members of the nobility at the time. Later, the Schiller collar was also associated with revolutionary ideas, non-bourgeois attitudes, but also with a lifestyle that was close to nature.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen: Anton Graff - life and work. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1967, p. 320.
2. ^ Robert Eberhardt (ed.), Friedrich Dieckmann: Anton Graff - portraits of a portraitist. Wolff Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. 121.