Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was a German princess and composer.
Portrait by Johann Ernst Heinsius (1769)
Duchess Anna Amalia with her sons Karl August and Constantin, by Anna Rosina de Gasc, 1773-1774
Bust of the Duchess in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library by Martin Gottlieb Klauer (1780)
Duchess Anna Amalia, by Angelica Kauffmann in 1788/1789
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christi
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
…Germany. Her invitation of Abel Seyler's theatre company in 1771 marked the start of Weimar Classicism, that would include such figures such as Wieland, Goethe, Herder and Schiller working under her protection. She was born in Schloss Wolfenbüttel in Wolfenbüttel, the fifth child of thirteen of Karl I, Duke…
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828
Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt (Großer Hirschgraben)
Goethe, age 38, painted by Angelica Kauffman, 1787
Goethe, by Luise Seidler (Weimar 1811)