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He painted one of the most famous portraits of Goethe, Goethe in the Roman Campagna. Goethe looked everywhere for ancient works of art, in museums and private collections, travelled twice to the Royal Palace of Portici where the excavations from Pompeii and Herculaneum were exhibited, he visited the Greek temples in Paestum several times.
Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1786) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein Goethe's poetic work served as a model for an entire movement in German poetry termed Innerlichkeit ("introversion") and represented by, for example, Heine .
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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787, oil on canvas, 164 x 206 cm [41] Claude Monet, The Luncheon, 1868–1869, oil on canvas, 231.5 x 151.5 cm; Edgar Degas, Musicians in the Orchestra [fr; it; nl], 1872, oil on canvas, 69 x 49 cm; Auguste Renoir, After the Luncheon, 1879, oil on canvas, 100.5 x 81.3 cm
Goethe said that "Occasional Poetry is the highest kind" (Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1786) 1669 occasional sonnet printed in Urbino. Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion. In the history of literature, it is often studied in connection with orality, performance, and patronage.
Harzreise im Winter. " Harzreise im Winter " (‘ Winter Journey in the Harz ’) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, inspired by his ascent of the Brocken in the Harz mountains during the winter of 1777. [1] He reached the summit in the heat of midday, in deep snow, with the landscape below him shrouded in cloud.
Elective Affinities (German: Die Wahlverwandtschaften), also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. Situated around the city of Weimar, the book relates the story of Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple enjoying an idyllic but somewhat mundane life on a secluded ...
Goethe became interested in the dewatering attempts, after observing that it is "a large and extensive task". He probably used this image in this scene in his Faust II, Act V: "A marsh extends along the mountain-chain, That poisons what so far I’ve been achieving; Were I that noisome pool to drain, 'Twould be the highest, last achieving. Thus ...