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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Frankfurt 1749-1832 Weimar,was a German writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also served at length as the Privy Councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar. Goethe is the originator of the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"), having taken great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, Arabic literature, amongst others. His influence on German philosophy is virtually immeasurable, having major effect especially on the generation of Hegel and Schelling, although Goethe himself expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense. Goethe's influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a major source of inspiration in music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Goethe is considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture as well.
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Herbarium sheet
mk141
Nigella damascena
1785/90
35x20cm
Painting ID:: 38909
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Herbarium_sheet
mk141
Nigella damascena
1785/90
35x20cm
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Aegopodium podagraria
mk141
1806
graphite pencil,gray pen,gray and brown wash on handmade deckle-edge paper
Watercolored
37.7x54cm
Painting ID:: 38910
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Aegopodium_podagraria
mk141
1806
graphite pencil,gray pen,gray and brown wash on handmade deckle-edge paper
Watercolored
37.7x54cm
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THe Toiler Annual Plant Type
mk141
ca.1790
Pencil and pen on paper
34.8x40.7cm
Painting ID:: 38911
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THe_Toiler_Annual_Plant_Type
mk141
ca.1790
Pencil and pen on paper
34.8x40.7cm
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Proliferous Carnation
mk141
1788
Graphite pencil on paper
47.5x34.0cm
Painting ID:: 38912
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Proliferous_Carnation
mk141
1788
Graphite pencil on paper
47.5x34.0cm
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Stalk and Flower Parts of the Cornation
mk141
1787
Pencil and Watercolor on paper
24.1x35.3cm
Painting ID:: 38913
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Stalk_and_Flower_Parts_of_the_Cornation
mk141
1787
Pencil and Watercolor on paper
24.1x35.3cm
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Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Frankfurt 1749-1832 Weimar,was a German writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also served at length as the Privy Councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar. Goethe is the originator of the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"), having taken great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, Arabic literature, amongst others. His influence on German philosophy is virtually immeasurable, having major effect especially on the generation of Hegel and Schelling, although Goethe himself expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense. Goethe's influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a major source of inspiration in music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Goethe is considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture as well.
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