The Weimar Princely Free Drawing School was an art and literature educational establishment. It was set up in 1776 in Weimar by the scholar and ducal private-secretary Friedrich Justin Bertuch and the
Theobald von Oer (1807–1885): The Weimar Court of the Muses. – In 1860, 55 years after Schiller's death in 1805, this oil painting was produced of a reading of his poems in the park of the Schloss Tiefurt. Among the listeners, to the right, is Goethe.
Georg Melchior Kraus, Self-portrait
Ferdinand Jagemann, Self-portrait
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; by Joseph Karl Stieler
Karoline Jagemann
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Baroness Karoline Jagemann von Heygendorff was a major German tragedienne and singer. Her great roles included Elizabeth in Mary Stuart and Beatrice in The Bride of Messina. She is also notable as a m
Weimar Princely Free Drawing School
…Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and heavily promoted by Goethe, who also taught there. Among its pupils were Charles Augustus's future mistress Karoline Jagemann. It lasted until 1930. As Weimar's Geheimer Rat had oversight over the school from 1788 to 1832, it is not to be confused with the Großherzoglich-Sächsischen…
Karoline Jagemann as Ion, by Jakob Wilhelm Christian Roux (1803)