Description: Allemagne_198 1838 print JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, #198 Print from steel engraving titled Goethe, published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris, approx. page size 20.5 x 12.5 cm, approx. image size 9 x 8 cm. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von born Aug. 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]; died March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar German poet, novelist, playwright, and natural philosopher, the greatest figure of the German Romantic period and of German literature as a whole. Goethe studied law in Leipzig and Strasbourg. His formative years coincided with the turbulent Sturm und Drang movement, and he contributed to it the drama Götz von Berlichingen (1773) and the novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774; The Sorrows of Young Werther). From 1775 he resided in Weimar, where he fell in love with Charlotte von Stein, who inspired some of his finest lyrics and to whom he wrote some 1,500 letters. Although she was only one of the many women who inspired him, her influence was crucial in the development of Goethe's classicism. Direct contact with classical culture during his Italian sojourn of 1786 helped to shape his plays Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787) and Torquato Tasso (1790) and the poems Römische Elegien (published 1795; “Roman Elegies”). Goethe's aesthetic theories were sharpened by his friendship and correspondence with the playwright Friedrich von Schiller. Although not wholly sympathetic to the Romantic movement, he approved of the Romantics' receptivity to foreign literatures and sought a rapprochement with Eastern culture in the West-östlicher Divan (1819). Throughout his life he retained a passion for scientific and philosophical studies, elaborating a theory of colours and writing on botany and biology. Remaining astonishingly creative, Goethe in his last years wrote Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (1821–29; Wilhelm Meister's Travels) and completed his greatest drama, Faust (Part I, 1808; Part II, 1832).
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Year of Production: 1838
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