Maximiliane Brentano
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Maximiliane Brentano was a German woman who is known for her friendship to the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and as the mother of the Romantic writers Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim. Born i
Drawing of Brentano, before 1774
Stadioner Hof, Mainz
Wieland arrives for the sentimentalist congress, 1868. Maximiliane follows her mother down the stairs.
Georg Michael Frank von La Roche with Wife and Daughter, c. 1774
Johann Christian Kestner
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Johann Georg Christian Kestner was a German lawyer and archivist. He is also notable as the model for Lotte's husband Albert in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, with Kestner's fiancée Charlotte
Johann Georg Christian Kestner
