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
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)
Italian Journey
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Italian Journey is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786 to 1788 that was published in 1816 & 1817. The book is based on Goethe's diaries and is smoothed in style, lack
Goethe in the Roman Campagna. by J. H. W. Tischbein (1787)
Casa di Goethe, once Tischbein's flat, today a museum on the Italian Journey in Via del Corso 18, Rome
The Gulf of Naples with a view of Vesuvius, by Goethe's artist friend Christoph Heinrich Kniep