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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Leaf shapes mk141
ca.1789
Pen and ink on white paper
27.5x19.6cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Agove mk141
Spring 1787
Pencil on paper
15x10.5cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Prickly pears mk141
spring 1787
pencil on paper
15x10.4cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Palm and cycad leaves mk141
spring 1787
Plants mounted on cardboard
70x110cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plant sketch mk141
ca.1810/12
pencil on paper
19.6x27.6cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plant study mk141
ca.1812
pen and ink,sepia wash with white highlights,on blue drawing paper.
15.9x18.1cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Herbarium sheet mk141
Gladiolus communis
1785/90
34.4x20.5cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Herbarium sheet mk141
Iberis umbellata
1785/90
34.8x19.8cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Herbarium sheet mk141
Centaurea cyanus
1785/90
35.2x20.2cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Herbarium sheet mk141
Cyperus alternifolius
1785/90
35x20cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Herbarium sheet mk141
Nigella damascena
1785/90
35x20cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Aegopodium podagraria mk141
1806
graphite pencil,gray pen,gray and brown wash on handmade deckle-edge paper
Watercolored
37.7x54cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe THe Toiler Annual Plant Type mk141
ca.1790
Pencil and pen on paper
34.8x40.7cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Proliferous Carnation mk141
1788
Graphite pencil on paper
47.5x34.0cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Budding,Flowering,and Branching System mk141
ca.1786/87
Pen and ink on white paper
15x11.7cm
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the composer of rule britannia mk270 the composer of rule, britannia
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe j s bach s third son, who was an influential composer mk270 j s bach s third son, who was an influential composer.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the english bach who worked mostly in london mk270 the english bach who worked mostly in london.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who worked in vienna and madrid. he was a fine cellist mk270 who worked in vienna and madrid. he was a fine cellist.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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